"She has flatly stated as recently as yesterday that she cannot go through with a prosecution at this time," Ms. Hobbs told the judge.
The Times reported a professor saying that if national security has been damaged, "a prosecution [at the Guardian] should follow".
It has ceased being a prosecution at all.
The bank rejected an earlier plea deal with French authorities which may have spared it the ordeal of a public prosecution at the expense of a record €1.4bn fine, Le Monde reported in March.
See articleThe fall guy stands upAndrew Fastow, Enron's former chief financial officer, gave testimony as a prosecution witness at the trial of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, who held the reins leading up to the energy-trader's bankruptcy.
Here, Orjuela, appearing as a prosecution witness at the trial of three other paramilitary members, told the court that "the corporation paid an 'annual' [fee] to the organisation [paramilitary leadership]", adding that his boss, who planned the kidnap of Torres, which he, Orjuela carried out, asked for an extra cut amounting to $40,000£25,00000) at the time.
From 2001 to 2003, I worked as a prosecution attorney at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, where I helped investigate and prosecute the Srebrenica genocide.
A prosecution memo at the time stated that there was no case against Williams, but the judge, who, in his ruling, decried "the cynicism and hypocrisy of corrupt public officials," set it aside; Williams was found guilty and sentenced to three years in prison.
He was later found and brought back as a prosecution witness at the murder trial.
Last month, Mr. Inclán was a prosecution witness at the federal corruption trial of his onetime political mentor, Mayor David Delle Donna of Guttenberg, and the mayor's wife, Anna.
(Agence France-Presse) NETHERLANDS: LIBYAN AT LOCKERBIE TRIAL -- A Libyan who was seized, beaten unconscious and charged with carrying bombs through a Senegal airport in early 1988 testified as a prosecution witness at the Lockerbie trial.
