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  2. The U.S. Bill of Rights. Article Three, Section Two, Clause Three of the United States Constitution provides that: . Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have ...

  3. Sorrells v. United States - Wikipedia

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    Sorrells v. United States, 287 U.S. 435 (1932), is a Supreme Court case in which the justices unanimously recognized the entrapment defense. However, while the majority opinion by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes located the key to entrapment in the defendant's predisposition or lack thereof to commit the crime, Owen Roberts' concurring opinion proposed instead that it be rooted in an ...

  4. Law and order (politics) - Wikipedia

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    In modern politics, "law and order" is an ideological approach focusing on harsher enforcement and penalties as ways to reduce crime. [1] Penalties for perpetrators of disorder may include longer terms of imprisonment, mandatory sentencing , three-strikes laws and even capital punishment in some countries.

  5. United States v. Carmack - Wikipedia

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    United States v. Carmack, 329 U.S. 230 (1946), was a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the United States federal government was empowered by Condemnation Act of August 1, 1888; the Public Buildings Act of 1926; and the United States Constitution to exercise its right of eminent domain over land containing buildings owned by a state or local government.

  6. Classes of offenses under United States federal law - Wikipedia

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    Special assessment [6] [note 4] Felony A Life imprisonment (or death in certain cases of murder, treason, espionage or mass trafficking of drugs) $250,000: 1-5 years: 5 years: 5 years: $100 B 25 years or more: $250,000: 5 years: 3 years: $100 C More than 10 years and less than 25 years: $250,000: 3 years: 2 years: $100 D More than 5 years and ...

  7. Collateral consequences of criminal conviction - Wikipedia

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    Collateral consequences of criminal conviction are the additional civil state penalties, mandated by statute, that attach to a criminal conviction. They are not part of the direct consequences of criminal conviction, such as prison, fines, or probation. They are the further civil actions by the state that are triggered as a consequence of the ...

  8. Condemnation - Wikipedia

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    Condemnation may refer to: Damnation , the antithesis of salvation The act of eminent domain which refers to the power of a government to take private property for public use

  9. Sentence (law) - Wikipedia

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    The sentences of condemnation are also classified by the penalty they determine: sentence of reclusion, sentence of fee, sententia agendi, sentence that impose a determined action or a series of action as a penalty for the illegal act. This kind of sentence became better developed and remained in wider use in common law systems.