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1. criminal lawnoun

   the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment

How to use criminal law in a sentence?

1. Norval Morris:

   The prime function of the criminal law is to protect our persons and our property; these purposes are now engulfed in a mass of other distracting, inefficiently performed, legislative duties. When the criminal law invades the spheres of private morality and social welfare, it exceeds its proper limits at the cost of neglecting its primary tasks. This unwarranted extension is expensive, ineffective, and criminogenic.

2. Elizabeth Warren:

   He is a criminal law professor who stood in the well of the Senate and talked about how law never inquires into intent and that we should not be using the presidents intent as part of understanding impeachment, criminal law is all about intent. Mens rea is the heart of criminal law. Thats the very basis of it. So it makes his whole presentation just nonsensical. I truly could not follow it.

3. Catherine Hanssens:

   If somebody picks up a chair with the intent of bashing your head in, that should be a crime. Do we need a chair-specific criminal law ? I don't think so.

4. Vicki Behenna:

   I understand criminal law, but I was not familiar at all with the UCMJ.

5. Andrew Smith:

   The judgment is a welcome reminder of the presumption against extraterritoriality in English criminal law.

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