committing a criminal act

Instead they are committing a criminal act that potentially places American lives at risk.

Take away the accusation, and there would be no question of him committing a criminal act.

Beyond that, these people are committing a criminal act, and should be treated as such."

You are desperate, and you do so, thereby committing a criminal act.

In these operations a government or organization attempts to impersonate another party while committing a criminal act.

This includes committing a criminal act that makes a person removable from the United States.

In Germany, the baby hatch system only just borders on the legal; normally a mother who abandons her child is committing a criminal act.

You are also committing a criminal act!"

You are committing a criminal act, and if you do not leave voluntarily, we will take you into custody.

Some polygamous families use a system of multiple divorce and legal marriage as a loophole in order to avoid committing a criminal act.

"Ignorance of the law," Fletcher said impatiently, "has never been an acceptable excuse for committing a criminal act against another intelligent being.

Anyone who assists you in any way is committing a criminal act; and anyone concealing knowledge of your whereabouts is also liable to punishment. '

For instance, in Australia, there is a rebuttable presumption that a child aged at least 10 but less than 14 is incapable of committing a criminal act.

In all but four states, anyone charged with committing a criminal act before his or her seventeenth or eighteenth birthday is initially processed as a juvenile defendant.

He secretly leaves the school and takes Owen with him to London hoping to be the boy's saviour, although he knows he is committing a criminal act.

Those who take advantage of this phenomenon are committing a criminal act, financing the trafficking of human beings and using people as goods to be bought and sold.

I should have the freedom/liberty to travel wherever I want without being hassled by the man at checkpoint charlie on the off-chance I might be committing a criminal act.

All of it seemed to relate to humans, but it was not a great leap of reasoning to assume that committing a criminal act could mean trouble for a robot as well.

But if the investigators believe that someone is committing a criminal act and want to use a sting operation in the form of a witness's statement, I don't see that that violates standards of professional ethics."

At one point, exasperated by the painting of Gross as a victim, one prosecutor suggested that "it almost sounds as if the criminal-justice system would be cruel to punish a person for committing a criminal act."

He wrote in Nieman Reports that he did not believe the person who spoke to him was committing a criminal act, but only practicing damage control by trying to get him to write about Mr. Wilson.

The current rule allows disclosure only "to prevent the client from committing a criminal act that the lawyer believes is likely to result in imminent death or substantial bodily harm" - a more stringent requirement because it is limited to disclosure related to criminal actions by the client.

Some people say that this could push the laboratory in a new, ultra-hush-hush direction, and that any of the 200 or so administrators, scientists or employees who say too much about what goes on at the 850-acre island, which is less than two miles off the North Fork, will risk committing a criminal act.