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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. 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.

3. Andrew Smith:

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

4. President Vladimir Putin:

   People have tried to stick this label on us, even people who use criminal law to persecute people of nontraditional orientation. Some U.S. states make it a crime, and though as far as I know these laws are not actually applied and the Supreme Court has suspended them, but they are nevertheless still on the books. We have no criminal penalties.

5. 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.

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