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Richards, 38, pleaded guilty in Camden County Superior Court to simple assault, a nonindictable offense in New Jersey, in the May death of Briscoe.
Phillies Zone 2010
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The Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office ultimately remanded the case to the Egg Harbor City Municipal Court, which handles only nonindictable offenses.
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The phrase may have been used in the bill of impeachment [26] as an over-all rubric, but no less an authority than the magisterial English legal historian Holdsworth tells us that the specific charges against Hastings were "serious breaches of the criminal law" and that in his trial the House of Lords rejected the view that it was not bound by the ordinary rules of evidence, [27] as might well be the case in the trial of a nonindictable offense.
A Special Supplement: Impeachment Stone, I.F. 1973
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