The Attorney General's Survey of Release Procedures, Volumes 2-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 - Criminal procedure |
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... released on good behavior . The power of the court to suspend sentence indefinitely has been held as an inherent right of the courts in many of our States . " 3 Holdsworth , A History of English Law ( 3d ed . 1923 ) 294 . the list of ...
... released on good behavior . The power of the court to suspend sentence indefinitely has been held as an inherent right of the courts in many of our States . " 3 Holdsworth , A History of English Law ( 3d ed . 1923 ) 294 . the list of ...
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... releasing convicted persons without sufficient investigation as to their fitness for such treatment and without provision for any period of supervision . In fairness to the lawmakers who enacted these statutes , it should be borne in ...
... releasing convicted persons without sufficient investigation as to their fitness for such treatment and without provision for any period of supervision . In fairness to the lawmakers who enacted these statutes , it should be borne in ...
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... released under suspended sentence as compared to other " Marshall and Yntema , Foreword in Douglas , The Justice of the Peace Courts of Hamilton County , Ohio ( 1932 ) v . types of disposition ? To these fundamental questions accu- rate 33.
... released under suspended sentence as compared to other " Marshall and Yntema , Foreword in Douglas , The Justice of the Peace Courts of Hamilton County , Ohio ( 1932 ) v . types of disposition ? To these fundamental questions accu- rate 33.
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... released during a year . Moreover , the percentage of offenders convicted in the vari- ous State courts who are placed ... release defendants on suspended sentence . Statistics revealing the 98 Penal Institutions , Probation and Parole ...
... released during a year . Moreover , the percentage of offenders convicted in the vari- ous State courts who are placed ... release defendants on suspended sentence . Statistics revealing the 98 Penal Institutions , Probation and Parole ...
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... released on probation , it is a customary procedure to explain the conditions and have him sign an acknowledgment of them . Although the terms are generally so broad that they need be changed only in unusual circumstances , it is the ...
... released on probation , it is a customary procedure to explain the conditions and have him sign an acknowledgment of them . Although the terms are generally so broad that they need be changed only in unusual circumstances , it is the ...
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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.