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	High crimes and misdemeanours - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		High crimes and misdemeanors is a phrase from the United States Constitution, Article II, Section 4: "The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."
		A high crime is one which seeks the overthrow of the country, which gives aid or comfort to its enemies, or which injures the country to the profit of an individual or group.
		The first impeachment conviction by the U.S. Senate was in 1804 of District Judge John Pickering for the high crime and misdemeanor of chronic intoxication.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/High_crimes_and_misdemeanors (627 words)

	Meaning of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I have carefully researched the origin of the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors" and its meaning to the Framers, and found that the key to understanding it is the word "high".
		It refers to those punishable offenses that only apply to high persons, that is, to public officials, those who, because of their official status, are under special obligations that ordinary persons are not under, and which could not be meaningfully applied or justly punished if committed by ordinary persons.
		Under the English common law tradition, crimes were defined through a legacy of court proceedings and decisions that punished offenses not because they were prohibited by statutes, but because they offended the sense of justice of the people and the court.
	www.constitution.org /cmt/high_crimes.htm (1182 words)

	High Crimes and Misdemeanors
		The phrase, "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" can be evading to the human ear, the same way those trusty attorneys can change the meaning of two words like cat and dog by twisting them around to appear as felidae and canidae even though the meaning or relation is quite similar.
		Well in this case the adjective "high" couldn't be used to describe the elevation that the crime is being committed at, it must mean that the crime being committed has to be a necessarily big or dangerous crime.
		Unlike the crimes that are done today against people or their property and possessions, misdemeanors were characterized as a crime against the state, a larger offense.
	library.thinkquest.org /25673/highcrimes.htm (909 words)

	High Crimes and Misdemeanors
		Crimes that are malum in se, or wrong in themselves, such as murder or bribery, would certainly fall within the ambit of "high Crimes and Misdemeanors." Crimes that are malum prohibitum, or wrong only because the law makes them so--Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) violations for example--would not.
		The British categories for high crimes and misdemeanors weren't rejected by the framers so much as they were expanded and reshuffled for use in a different country.
		Rather, high crimes and misdemeanors are "political" in the sense that they "relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself." Since policy matters are necessarily off the table, in a sense, that leaves only "personal misconduct, or as Edmund Randolph put it, "wilful mistakes of the heart."
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/c/coulter-crimes.html (5512 words)

	High Crimes: Cinephiles Movie Review
		High Crimes delivers limited information about each of its characters, effectively misleading the viewer as he or she tries to determine the characters' intentions and to define the true nature of the characters' relation toward each other.
		Evidently, High Crimes' focus on the negative and mysterious aspects of some of its key characters establishes an overall sense of paranoia and mistrust.
		Rather than exploring the complex nature of its characters, High Crimes conforms itself with creating a game of "who's who" (a game that tries to establish itself as completely credible), where the characters' moves are often more predictable than their consequences.
	www.cinephiles.net /High_Crimes/Film-Synopsis.html (476 words)

	High Crimes (2002)
		No, High Crimes doesn’t overtly steal from A Few Good Men, but occasionally it comes a little too close for comfort.
		Crimes veers dangerously close to soap opera territory at times, especially as the film progresses and the mysterious forces more strongly threaten Claire.
		High Crimes appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this single-sided, dual-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
	www.dvdmg.com /highcrimes.shtml (1751 words)

	Rightgrrl - High Crimes and Misdemeanors - by Cheri
		Principal or chief, as high constable, high sheriff.
		High Crime: An offense against a public law that is immediately noticable, conspicuous, or widely known.
		The charges of perjury and obstruction of justice are felonies, and fit the definition of high crimes.
	www.rightgrrl.com /99grrls/February/cheri/highcrimes.html (963 words)

	"High Crimes" - Salon
		Apart from "Blade II," "High Crimes" is probably the most entertaining commercial movie so far this year.
		"High Crimes" isn't the sort of picture that explores characters or situations or allows a director to accumulate some texture.
		You can sit through "High Crimes" without being bored or wanting to walk out, and unlike with "40 Days and 40 Nights," "Showtime," "Hart's War," "Panic Room" or others I've already blocked from memory, your head doesn't feel like it's been stuffed with cotton afterward.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2002/04/05/high_crimes/index.html (1502 words)

	Hugh Grant plus high crimes and misdemeanors - September 15, 1998
		"High crimes and misdemeanors" is a phrase taken from English law, referring to political crimes against the state, and violating the public trust.
		Since this is not criminal law, the standard for determining whether Clinton has committed "high crimes and misdemeanors" is not "beyond a reasonable doubt." It is a much easier standard to prove.
		Therefore, it is futile for Clinton supporters to focus on the argument that Clinton did not commit perjury since he believed his behavior did not constitute "sexual relations." Technical legal arguments may have to pass muster in front of the grand jury in a legal courtroom, but not in impeachment proceedings.
	wc.arizona.edu /papers/92/16/04_3_m.html (723 words)

	High time - definition of 'high crimes and misdemeanors' - Scandal File National Review - Find Articles
		No, actually, those are "crimes." The "high crimes and misdemeanors" for which the President -- or any civil officer of the United States -- is to be impeached have nothing to do with the criminal law.
		There is, in fact, no such thing as a "high crime" or "high misdemeanor" in the criminal codes.
		So, a "high misdemeanor" refers not, as it is commonly construed, to a criminal offense just short of a felony, but to simple misbehavior -- bad demeanor, if you will.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n17_v50/ai_21129268 (527 words)

	High Crimes (2002) - Ninth Symphony Films Review
		Crimes might have been worthy of the type of praise heaped on such military thrillers as A Few Good Men and Courage Under Fire.
		High Crimes has attached to it the same impressive talent as A Few Good Men, but without the talented writing of Aaron Sorkin holding the pen.
		Now, this is not to say that Sorkin is the only writer who can pull off a good military thriller, but in High Crimes, a team of two writers, Yuri Zeltser and Grace Cary Bickley, was not able to turn this military novel into a film whose script was worthy of its actors.
	regencylady.tripod.com /site/filmreviews/highcrimes.html (871 words)

	What Are "High Crimes and Misdemeanors"? - Bruce Gottlieb - Slate Magazine
		A third group of scholars believes that "high crimes and misdemeanors" refers to "crimes against the state." A crime is against the state when it attacks the very core of the state's apparatus--treason is against the state, jaywalking is not.
		There is a linguistic argument that "treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors" implies that high crimes and misdemeanors must be equal in seriousness to treason and bribery.
		One professor has even suggested that "high crimes and misdemeanors" are not the standard for impeachment, and that a president can be impeached for considerably less.
	www.slate.com /id/1002016 (954 words)

	Low points fail to slow fast-paced 'High Crimes' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In his fourth film, "High Crimes," he aims a bit lower, and allies himself with Ashley Judd, who (after "Double Jeopardy," "Kiss the Girls" and "Eye of the Beholder") has become famous for starring in very bad thrillers that somehow manage to be huge hits.
		Based on a novel by Joseph Finder, it's the story of a fast-rising young San Francisco criminal attorney (Judd) whose charmed life goes all to hell when her perfect husband (Jim Caviezel) is charged with a massacre he supposedly committed in El Salvador as a Marine a decade ago.
		And when it becomes clear that sinister forces are intent on railroading her man straight to the gallows, she defends him in the court-martial, and promptly finds herself the object of harassment, illegal surveillance, beatings and even murder attempts.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/65271_highcrimes05q.shtml (622 words)

	High Crimes \| movies : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
		In ''High Crimes,'' she manages the dual feat of looking at once stylish and desexed: lips glossy, eyes beaming, cheeks perfectly pancaked, yet all of it set off by a squirrelly hairdo that suggests Audrey Hepburn in the land of the 70-hour workweek.
		''High Crimes'' carries almost no organic intrigue as a government/Marine/legal mystery, and that's because the movie serves up all of that stuff, nearly subliminally, as the old-hat province of male intrigue.
		''High Crimes'' was directed by Carl Franklin, whose promise in the last decade, starting from when he made the volatile ''One False Move,'' seems to be leaking away.
	www.ew.com /ew/article/review/movie/0,6115,221883~1~0~highcrimes,00.html (935 words)

	High Crimes (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The film is yes perhaps predictable and we've seen it all before but something about it is full of high energy and scares and thrills and it's the perfect night at the movies.
		Ashley Judd plays a high profile attourney who's life is turned upside down when her carpenter husband is arrested for murder years earlier while in the army.
		The twist is she didn't know he was ever in the army and everything from her husbands name to where he was during the murder is all new to her.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0257756 (755 words)

	High Crimes Books - Recent Releases
		Among them are some crimes so impossible that they’re pretty near perfect, and others so perfect that they are impossible to solve.
		No one could ever imagine they’d be linked to a brutal crime in the city’s steamy past, and that the race against the clock to corner a determined serial killer would stir up secrets long thought buried with the dead.
		As Sano seeks the truth behind the Rashomon-like accounts of the murder, the stakes are almost unbearably high, and the only piece of evidence is a white chrysanthemum, stained red with blood.
	www.highcrimesbooks.com /cat/recent.html (6176 words)

	Amazon.com: High Crimes: DVD: Ashley Judd,Morgan Freeman,James Caviezel,Adam Scott,Amanda Peet,Bruce Davison,Tom ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The premise: Ashley Judd plays a high profile defense attorney who has just won a big case and is on her way to becoming a partner at her firm.
		In a trend that is highly representative of the disjointed plotline of High Crimes, Tom is suddenly arrested.
		HIGH CRIME #5: A long, drawn-out (115 minute) plot with a depressing conclusion that doesn't make up for any of the nonsense we had to put up with to get to the end.
	www.amazon.com /High-Crimes-Ashley-Judd/dp/B000068MBI (2080 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: High Crimes
		Yes, there's a scene where Judd encounters a creepy guy late at night, who asks her to get in the car, drives to a secret location and reveals the details necessary to solving the case.
		Anyhoo, I was bored and wanted to go see something and "High Crimes" was the only thing showing that I hadn't already seen.
		"High Crimes" is about as original as a Puff Daddy (sorry, P. Diddy) song, but longer and more boring.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/highcrimes.html (863 words)

	Movieman's Guide to the Movies - High Crimes (2002)
		There are several plot holes in High Crimes but if revealed, they would give away the killer and thereby calling into question my "critic ethics".
		Judd plays Claire Kubik, a successful defense attorney and wife who gets her entire world turned upside down after her husband (played by Tom Cruise look-alike Caviezel) is arrested by the FBI for the murders of 9 men, women and children in a military raid some years ago.
		Overall, High Crimes has great acting from the two leads but falls flat on it's face when it came to the script.
	www.moviemansguide.com /highcrimes.php (732 words)

	Constitutional Rights Foundation--The Role of the Independent Counsel
		They are “treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors.” To be impeached and removed from office, the House and Senate must find that the official committed one of these acts.
		Since 1386, the English parliament had used “high crimes and misdemeanors” as one of the grounds to impeach officials of the crown.
		Judiciary Committee’s hearings, experts testified on what constituted “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The experts called by the Democrats argued that none of the allegations against the president rose to the level of “high crimes and misdemeanors.” These experts echoed the reasoning found in the 1974 staff report and Professor Charles Black’s book on impeachment.
	www.crf-usa.org /impeachment/highcrimes.html (2591 words)

	CNN.com - Review: 'High Crimes' takes easy out - April 5, 2002
		The dynamic duo, however, needs help, especially since it's obvious that everyone else would be happy to run Tom straight to the stockade and throw away the key.
		That help arrives in the form of Charlie (Freeman), an alcoholic former military attorney who doesn't "play by the rules." This includes wearing a wrinkled sports coat into court and refusing to comb his hair.
		Unfortunately, her consistently unadventurous screenplay selection -- and that very much includes "High Crimes" -- has turned her into nothing more than Sandra Bullock.
	www.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/05/review.high.crimes (816 words)

	Impeach Bush
		The definition of "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" was left intentionally vague by the founders but is generally considered to refer to misconduct or a violation of the public trust that is injurious to society.
		The crimes of Treason and Bribery are fairly straightforward.
		Second, the phrase "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" was confined to parliamentary impeachments; it had no roots in the ordinary criminal law, and the particular allegations of misconduct under that heading were not necessarily limited to common law or statutory derelictions or crimes.'
	www.impeachbush.tv /impeach/offenses.html (710 words)

	High Crimes and Misdemeanors: A Short History of Impeachment — Infoplease.com
		Bribery and treason are among the least ambiguous reasons meriting impeachment, but the ocean of wrongdoing encompassed by the Constitution's stipulation of “high crimes and misdemeanors” is vast.
		Since Congress, the vortex of partisanship, is responsible for indicting, trying, and convicting public officials, it is necessary for the legislative branch to temporarily cast aside its factional nature and adopt a judicial role.
		The 'High Crimes' Riddle.(the technical legal points in Kenneth Starr's report mean little, because the decision to impeach a president......
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0764613.html (1261 words)

	WiFi High Crimes
		So if the government wanted to throw you in jail, it could argue that, by getting free Internet, you were accessing the provider's computer without authorization (and that you knew or should have known it was without authorization or in excess of authorization) and you thereby obtained some information from the computer.
		In fact, the companion New York State computer crime law, NY Penal Code Section 156 (6), requires that, before you can be prosecuted for using a computer service without authorization, the government has to prove that the owner has given actual notice to potential hackers or trespassers, either in writing or orally.
		All in all, electronically examining packets traveling through the air is probably a crime, just as intentionally listening to someone's cell phone or cordless phone calls is a crime -- even if unencrypted and broadcast in the air.
	www.securityfocus.com /columnists/237 (1155 words)

	Amazon.com: High Crimes: Books: Joseph Finder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		What I liked about High Crimes was that Finder didn't lose sight of the person behind the attorney and how what she does for a living affects her in all parts of her life.
		When Claire Heller finds out that the man who helped her through a rocky time in her life, and who she then eventually came to love and marry, is not the person she thought he was, she's stunned and torn between who and what to believe.
		High Crimes, is a story about a Harvard Faculty who finds herself in a tight situation where her husband is accused of killing eighty-seven innocent people.
	www.amazon.com /High-Crimes-Joseph-Finder/dp/038072880X (1973 words)

	High Crimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		High Crimes carries almost no organic intrigue as a government/ Marine/legal mystery, and that's because the movie serves up all of that stuff, nearly subliminally, as the old-
		High Crimes steals so freely from other movies and combines enough disparate types of films that it can't help but engage an audience.
		High Crimes is a cinematic misdemeanor, a routine crime thriller remarkable only for its lack of logic and misuse of two fine actors, Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/high_crimes (1028 words)

	"High Crimes" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		Claire is a high profile San Francisco lawyer.
		But I will say that High Crimes does earn its PG-13 rating: it's fairly tame in the area of language, the violence is right on the edge but not obsessive, but there are three scenes of sexuality/nudity that include a strip club, a motel room with prostitutes, and implied pre-marital sex.
		Instead we found "The true crime in 'High Crimes' is the creation of an artificial world in which there are no truly admirable or spiritually mature persons.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2002/highcrimes.html (1443 words)

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