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193 documents for cognizable offence meaning

- Fox v. Ohio, 46 U.S. 410, 5 How. 410 (1847)
... of that State had no jurisdiction of the offence charged in the indictment, but that the jurisdicti... But there is a certain test of the meaning of this descriptive allegation, and that is, to in... or passing it is not an offence cognizable by the United States. This leads to a consideratio...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Deal or no deal? Remedying ineffective assistance of counsel during plea bargaining.
... were fair, the defendant suffered no cognizable prejudice and was therefore not entitled to a reme..., that this assistance would be less meaningful if it were limited to the formal trial itself. (17..."[No person shall] be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb.."). ....
- Yale Law Journal
- Vol. 120 Nbr. 6, April 2011
- Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U. S. (2006)
...That the quoted phrase bears its literal meaning and is used here in contradistinction to a conflic... military force and to certain specific offences defined in a written code." Id. , at 831 (emphasi... its jurisdiction limited to offenses cognizable during time of war, but its role is primarily a fa...
- U.S. Supreme Court

- Section 2: Powers and Duties of the President
... Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impe... of hostilities, and to deny him meaningful recourse to the federal courts. In Hamdi v. Rumsf... before certain conventions are cognizable by the courts in the enforcement of rights under t...
- Constitution of the United States (Annotated)
- Rothgery v. Gillespie County, 554 U.S. (2008)
... wonder whether he is "accused" within the meaning of the Sixth Amendment, and it makes no practical ... having power to punish the [charged] offence," 2 T. Cunningham, A New and Complete Law Dictiona... and whether Rothgery has suffered cognizable harm are separate questions from when the right at...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Stogner v. California, 539 U.S. 607 (2003)
... at the time of the commission of the offence, in order to convict the offender. All these, and... category as "shed[ding] light on the meaning" of the category, post, at 641, and describes th... to trial, finding the allegations not cognizable as treason under the law. Clarendon's Trial 358,...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- SAREI V. RIO TINTO, PLC, (9th Cir. 2011)
..., therefore, to adjudicate claims cognizable under the ATS, so long as the requirements for per... no reason not to give 'laws' its natural meaning, and therefore conclude that § 1331 jurisdiction ... may provide for its punishment, it is an offence against the law of nations; and as the scene of th...
- Federal Circuits
- Ex parte Wall, 107 U.S. 265 (1883)
... crime against the laws of Florida not cognizable in this court, and for which, if proven, this resp... of the commission of a most serious offence against the laws. The same afternoon he was inform... his property, within the true sense and meaning of the Constitution, it is certain that in many ca...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Tennessee v. Davis, 100 U.S. 257 (1879)
... the removal of criminal prosecutions for offences against the State laws, when there arises in them ..., the statute is to be allowed any meaning, when it speaks of criminal prosecutions in State ... within their respective districts, and cognizable under the authority of the United States to a limi...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875)
... to sixteen inclusive, do not constitute offences against the laws of the United States, and do not come within the purview, true intent, and meaning of the act of Congress, approved 31st May, 1870, e... and charged do not constitute offences cognizable in teh Circuit Court, and do not come within its p...
- U.S. Supreme Court