Reform of the Federal Criminal Laws: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session [-Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session].U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 - 12896 pages |
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... Commission's suggestions that the imposition of probation be regarded as a positive sentencing alternative , just as the imposition of a term of imprisonment or an imposition of a fine . When you come to a term of probation in section ...
... Commission's suggestions that the imposition of probation be regarded as a positive sentencing alternative , just as the imposition of a term of imprisonment or an imposition of a fine . When you come to a term of probation in section ...
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... Commission that probation be treated as a sentencing alternative rather than as the " suspension " of some other sentence . I am in strong accord with that philosophy . But I reflect the views of my fellow judges in the Eastern District ...
... Commission that probation be treated as a sentencing alternative rather than as the " suspension " of some other sentence . I am in strong accord with that philosophy . But I reflect the views of my fellow judges in the Eastern District ...
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... Commission that such provisions were unnecessary , since the sentencing court would be empowered to recommend that a young offender be committed to special fa- cilities to be maintained by the Bureau of Prisons . The National Commission ...
... Commission that such provisions were unnecessary , since the sentencing court would be empowered to recommend that a young offender be committed to special fa- cilities to be maintained by the Bureau of Prisons . The National Commission ...
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... Commission . The Commission has now been appointed and is in the process of initial organization . We suggest that the Commission must be given an opportunity to make the comprehensive review of conduct of Indian affairs mandated in ...
... Commission . The Commission has now been appointed and is in the process of initial organization . We suggest that the Commission must be given an opportunity to make the comprehensive review of conduct of Indian affairs mandated in ...
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... Commission . I would think that Commission would be exactly the instrument of Congress which should have a look into this entire problem and come up with recommendations to Congress . It seems to me that is a prime task for that Commission ...
... Commission . I would think that Commission would be exactly the instrument of Congress which should have a look into this entire problem and come up with recommendations to Congress . It seems to me that is a prime task for that Commission ...
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Page 56 - The judicial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity arising under the constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority...
Page 192 - The constitutional requirement of definiteness is violated by a criminal statute that fails to give a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice that his contemplated conduct is forbidden by the statute.
Page 48 - Nothing in this section shall authorize the alienation, encumbrance, or taxation of any real or personal property, including water rights, belonging to any Indian or any Indian tribe, band, or community that is held in trust by the United States...
Page 191 - Although the contents of the record not unnaturally aroused animosity, we think that, in the absence of a statute narrowly drawn to define and punish specific conduct as constituting a clear and present danger to a substantial interest of the State...
Page 55 - From their very weakness and helplessness, so largely due to the course of dealing of the Federal government with them and the treaties in which it has been promised, there arises the duty of protection, and with it the power.
Page 61 - ... no bill shall become a law unless on its final passage the vote be taken by yeas and nays, the names of the persons voting for and against the same be entered on the journal, and a majority of the members elected to each House be recorded thereon as voting in its favor.
Page 218 - If a man intentionally adopts certain conduct in certain circumstances known to him, and that conduct is forbidden by the law under those circumstances, he intentionally breaks the law in the only sense in which the law ever considers intent.
Page 62 - State shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of religious worship.
Page 76 - That the people inhabiting said proposed State do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof, and to all lands lying within said limits owned or held by any Indian or Indian tribes; and that until the title thereto shall have been extinguished by the United States, the same shall be and remain subject to the disposition of the United States...
Page 290 - Statement by Attorney General Clark in Hearings on S. 1760 before the Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 90th Cong., 2d Sess., 93.