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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... proportions of S. 1 , I do regard it as a monumental achievement in terms of accommodating the needs of statutory drafting with the recommendations of the national com- mission . ( 1 ) I would also like to say at the outset ,
... proportions of S. 1 , I do regard it as a monumental achievement in terms of accommodating the needs of statutory drafting with the recommendations of the national com- mission . ( 1 ) I would also like to say at the outset ,
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... recommendations and the sentencing judge considers them prior to the imposition of sentence . Of course , the conferring judges do not see the defendant and have no opportunity to hear what he may have to say in miti- gation of sentence ...
... recommendations and the sentencing judge considers them prior to the imposition of sentence . Of course , the conferring judges do not see the defendant and have no opportunity to hear what he may have to say in miti- gation of sentence ...
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... recommendations . However , it is one thing to say that Congress will leave to the inherent Article 3 powers of the courts their power to impose contempt upon a news- person for his refusal to disclose a confidential source . It is ...
... recommendations . However , it is one thing to say that Congress will leave to the inherent Article 3 powers of the courts their power to impose contempt upon a news- person for his refusal to disclose a confidential source . It is ...
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... recommendations to Congress . It seems to me that is a prime task for that Commission . Senator HRUSKA . It puts quite a burden on us on just how we go about it . Here we have a Nation of 213 million people and we de- vised the Criminal ...
... recommendations to Congress . It seems to me that is a prime task for that Commission . Senator HRUSKA . It puts quite a burden on us on just how we go about it . Here we have a Nation of 213 million people and we de- vised the Criminal ...
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... recommendations , having to do with : ( 1 ) jurisdiction on the reservation ; ( 2 ) zoning on the reservation ; ( 3 ) tribal fishing rights ; and ( 4 ) Indian water rights . The first recommendation urged the state legislature to ...
... recommendations , having to do with : ( 1 ) jurisdiction on the reservation ; ( 2 ) zoning on the reservation ; ( 3 ) tribal fishing rights ; and ( 4 ) Indian water rights . The first recommendation urged the state legislature to ...
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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.