The Attorney General's Survey of Release Procedures, Volumes 2-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 - Criminal procedure |
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... criminal law administration . The process of fact - finding must be continuous and exhaustive ; and it is my hope that this Survey will act as a stimulus to the development of permanent research programs . The success of ( v )
... criminal law administration . The process of fact - finding must be continuous and exhaustive ; and it is my hope that this Survey will act as a stimulus to the development of permanent research programs . The success of ( v )
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... fact the power of courts to suspend sentence , upon which the probation system was based , had long been established in the English common law as a necessary right of the Crown and the State to offset the rigors of an overrigid and ...
... fact the power of courts to suspend sentence , upon which the probation system was based , had long been established in the English common law as a necessary right of the Crown and the State to offset the rigors of an overrigid and ...
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... facts as stated in the Forsyth case , is not to be found in any known edition of Lord Hale's Pleas of the Crown . In New ... fact that the quotation from Hale's Pleas of the Crown made in the opinion contains 73115-39 - VOL . II - 2 the ...
... facts as stated in the Forsyth case , is not to be found in any known edition of Lord Hale's Pleas of the Crown . In New ... fact that the quotation from Hale's Pleas of the Crown made in the opinion contains 73115-39 - VOL . II - 2 the ...
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... fact has already been pointed out . True , because persons convicted of crime in the English courts were not entitled to a new trial , or to an appeal to a higher court on the facts , a limited form of suspension of sentence known as ...
... fact has already been pointed out . True , because persons convicted of crime in the English courts were not entitled to a new trial , or to an appeal to a higher court on the facts , a limited form of suspension of sentence known as ...
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... fact that probation grew up originally as a discretionary process in the courts , unhampered by previous legislative limitations , so that it was possible for the judges themselves to ascertain from personal experience , individual ...
... fact that probation grew up originally as a discretionary process in the courts , unhampered by previous legislative limitations , so that it was possible for the judges themselves to ascertain from personal experience , individual ...
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Page 217 - I, , do solemnly swear, in the presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the states thereunder ; and that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all...
Page 461 - Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above : therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
Page 49 - Humanity and good policy conspire to dictate that the benign prerogative of pardoning should be as little as possible fettered or embarrassed. The criminal code of every country partakes so much of necessary severity that, without an easy access to exceptions in favor of unfortunate guilt, justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary and cruel.
Page 389 - The discretion intended, however, is not a capricious or arbitrary discretion, but an impartial discretion, guided and controlled in its exercise by fixed legal principles.
Page 104 - The ordinary legal meaning of 'conviction,' when used to designate a particular stage of a criminal prosecution triable by a jury, is the confession of the accused in open court, or the verdict returned against him by the jury, which ascertains and publishes the fact of his guilt; while 'judgment
Page 291 - ... (3) That duly accredited officers of a sending state may at all times enter a receiving state and there apprehend and retake any person on probation or parole. For that purpose no formalities will be required other than establishing the authority of the officer and the identity of the person to be retaken.
Page 227 - A pardon reaches both the punishment prescribed for the offense and the guilt of the offender; and when the pardon is full, it releases the punishment and blots out of existence the guilt, so that in the eye of the law the offender is as innocent as if he had never committed the offense.
Page 206 - An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: "SEC.
Page 291 - ... if at the time when a state seeks to retake a probationer or parolee there should be pending against him within the receiving state any criminal charge, or he should be suspected of having committed within such state a criminal offense, he shall not be retaken without the consent of the receiving state until discharged from prosecution or from imprisonment for such offense.
Page 139 - A pardon in our days is not a private act of grace from an individual happening to possess power. It is a part of the Constitutional scheme. When granted it is the determination of the ultimate authority that the public welfare will be better served by inflicting less than what the judgment fixed.