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. 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.

2. Pasquotank Sheriff Tommy Wooten:

   While Pasquotank County District Attorney concluded that no criminal law was violated, this was a terrible and tragic outcome, and we could do better.

3. Paul Callan:

   In criminal law, the police can't wire somebody up. They have to give you Miranda warnings if they're going to take a statement from you, however, if a civilian is tape recording you, as was the case here with HBO, that's admissible in court if it's relevant to the crime committed.

4. Andrzej Dziega:

   You have prepared a criminal law, because it deprives a human being of humanity, a living, conceived human being.

5. 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.