Third, are obstruction of justice and perjury high Crimes and Misdemeanors under the Constitution?
Best known for movies such as "Double Jeopardy" and "High Crimes, " the actress attended Franchitti's races for years.
It's the first time in American history the Senate has tried an elected president for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Perjury and crimes less serious than obstruction of justice have always and properly been considered high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
They wrote the words 'high crimes and misdemeanors' as a threshold, but left it to us to determine what transgressions met this standard.
As Mr. Berman said this morning, not all offenses are high crimes and misdemeanors, and not all high crimes and misdemeanors come from criminal conduct.
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Third, I would briefly compare the facts against the constitutional requirements that an impeachment may proceed only for high crimes and misdemeanors and only on the basis of clear and convincing evidence.
At the Constitutional Convention, the committee on style, which was not authorized to make any substantive changes, dropped the words, "against the United States" after the words, "high crimes and misdemeanors" because it was understood that only high crimes and misdemeanors against the system of government would be impeachable.
It was in the face of objections from James Madison and Morris, however, that this term was too vague and would be the equivalent to tenure during the pleasure of the Senate that Mason withdrew his proposal and the convention then adopted the language other high crimes and misdemeanors against the state.
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"Quite simply, most police departments and law enforcement agencies do not have the capacity to figure out who is committing these crimes, " said Robert Morgester, a California deputy attorney general who specializes in high-technology crimes.
His move followed a number of high-profile crimes in the Pacific nation, including the gang-rape of a US academic in April.
Residents of Venezuela have been taking to the streets in recent months to protest about a series of high-profile crimes.
Clinton's presidential campaign, once stood on stage with Farrakhan in 1997 -- at an event the Times said was "called to promote racial reconciliation after several recent high-profile crimes" -- and praised him for his commitment to ending violence in the black community.
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Serbia's hopes of joining the EU were for many years frozen pending the capture of two of the Bosnian war's most high-profile war crimes suspects, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic.
Added to a troublingly high rate of nonsexual violent crimes (870 per 100, 000), that number makes Saginaw, Mich.
This, in turn, has enabled us to place greater emphasis on counter-intelligence, counter-terrorism, international organized crime, high-tech and economic crimes, civil rights violations, and crimes against children.
The hacker group Anonymous and its offshoot Lulz Security have been linked to a number of high profile computer attacks and crimes, including many that were meant to embarrass governments, federal agencies and corporate giants.
With the application of these smart cameras, ranging from spotting crimes on the high street or traffic violations to keeping children safe at school, the issue or who decides what is deemed suspicious comes into focus.
Many of the files chronicle cases in which agents used painstaking methodologies and high-risk raids to solve crimes and capture dangerous fugitives.
He changed that, staffing precincts in high-crime areas on peak crimes days with extra police and cutting back to a skeleton staff in quieter areas and times.
We always need to be careful not to become so enamored with the high-profile, big-dollar crimes that we forget to protect the little guy.
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Even after the supreme court finally set a date for the trial earlier this year (holders of high office in Brazil cannot be tried for crimes in lower courts), few expected much from it.
Judy Clarke of San Diego has a reputation of working with high-profile clients to get death-eligible crimes reduced.
Pomona is typical of several schools relaying its crime numbers to the OPE--76 of its 87 reported crimes were burglaries, resulting in a high per capita crime rate of 57 per thousand despite virtually no violent incidents.
The crimes carried a potential life sentence, but Federal High Court Judge Okechukwu Okeke said he had been swayed by the defence's plea for leniency and the conduct of the men in detention, it reports.
While the number of violent crimes have plummeted in other cities, they have remained high there.
Before the dramatic increase in awareness of crimes against children in the 1980s, only a few high-profile cases grabbed the public's attention.
The fact that Mr Fitzsimons was tried, found guilty and imprisoned for his crimes proves that if employees of PSCs break the law there is a high level of accountability even in complex environments.
The chief prosecutor at Germany's office investigating Nazi war crimes, Kurt Schrimm, said details on the suspect came to light during the high-profile Demjanjuk investigation.
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