Synonyms for criminal law
crim·i·nal law

Princeton's WordNet

1. criminal lawnoun

   the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment

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1. Danny Cevallos:

   Typically in criminal law, motive is not an element of a criminal offense, however, motive can be evidence of your intent (to commit a crime). Why you did something can tell us about what you meant to do when it happened. Hate crimes require that (an intent to commit crime) be motivated by some animus, some hatred of other people.

2. Alan Dershowitz:

   I will be paraphrasing the successful argument made by( Supreme Court) Justice Benjamin Curtis in the trial of( then-President) Andrew Johnson back in the 1860s, where he argued that the framers intended for impeachable conduct only to be criminal-like conduct or conduct that is prohibited by the criminal law.

3. Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten:

   While the district attorney concluded that no criminal law was violated, this was a terrible and tragic outcome, and we could do better.

4. Carrie Goldberg:

   Because almost all the laws are so new, law enforcement are still getting the hang of how to apply them, at our firm, we have so many cases where (complainants) go to law enforcement and are turned away, even in states that have the criminal law.

5. Oskar Groening:

   I share morally in the guilt but whether I am guilty under criminal law, you will have to decide.