A prisoner, called Oliver Crystal, who had been serv- ing a seven-year sentence for arson, had been employed by the prison in making stationery together with other prisoners. The stationery, (17) large cardboard boxes and despatched to shops by a courier, (18) was packed in At the end of the working day, the prisoner climbed into one of the boxes. When the courier arrived to col- lect the goods, the box, (19) inmate was loaded onto the truck along with the rest of containing the the batch (20) As soon as the vehicle was outside the prison gates and out of sight, the convict got out of the box and jumped off. It is believed that he was immediately picked up in a car by his accomplices, (21). driver alerted the police, after he noticed the cover on the back of the truck had been cut. The Other inmates are suspected to have known of the planned escape, but they are unlikely to testify, as helping a prisoner to escape is a criminal offence in Germany, (22). for the man, but are at present unaware of his where- The police are on the hunt abouts.
A where events like this one are uncommon B which gets delivered nationwide C that were due for delivery that day D where they had been waiting E which had also been in prison F which the driver later said was heavier than usual G who was a regular visitor to the prisoner H who had been waiting at a pre-arranged meeting point
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It is summer. Mother duck has got six eggs. Five eggs break and five yellow ducklings come out. But the sixth egg doesn’t break. "Oh dear! This egg is very big," says mother duck. Later, the sixth egg breaks. A big grey duckling comes out. "Oh no! This duckling is ugly!" shouts mother duck. "Come on, ducklings. Let’s go and visit the hen," says mother duck. She looks at the ugly duckling and she says, "Walk behind your brothers and sisters. I don’t want anybody to see you. You’re ugly!" The ugly duckling is sad. The hen sees the ducklings. She sees the ugly duckling too. The hen laughs. "Look! That duckling is silly!" says the hen. "He has got short legs. He’s grey. His beak is silly. He’s an ugly duckling!" Everybody laughs. The ugly duckling is very sad.
Criminal procedure, also called the criminal process or the criminal justice system, is the mechanism thought which crimes are investigated, the guilt of criminals adjudicated, and punishment imposed. It includes the police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and courts, the practices and procedures observed by them, and legal rules that govern them. In the criminal process an individual is pitted against the government, with all of its resources and authority, and only through the criminal process can the state’s most serious sanctions – imprisonment or even death – be applied.
Criminal law defines what conduct is criminal and prescribes the punishment for criminal conduct. Criminal procedure makes the criminal law work; the sanctions defined by criminal law are only effective because the criminal process can bring the sanctions to bear on individuals who violate the law. At the same time, criminal procedure aims to make sure that criminal sanctions are applied only to those who are guilty, and only through procedures that are recognized as fair. One goal of the criminal process is to punish the guilty, but other goals are to protect the innocent and to ensure that even the guilty are protected from abuse by the government.
Although we talk about “the” criminal process, different systems are in place in each state and in the federal courts.