The phrase "a prosecution for a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal contexts when referring to the act of prosecuting someone for a specific offense or crime.
Example: "The district attorney announced a prosecution for a series of thefts that occurred last month."
Alternatives: "a case against" or "a charge for".
Y. 240; People v. Casey, 72 N. Y .393. 2. For the same reason, if a prosecution for a crime, concerning which the witness is interrogated, is barred by the statute of limitations, he is compellable to answer.
Roughly 100,000 American contractors are working in Iraq, but there has yet to be a prosecution for a single incident of violence, according to Scott Horton, a specialist in the law of armed conflict who teaches at Columbia University.
The Matthews test did not apply because of "the grand jury's singular [and valid] role in finding the probable cause necessary to initiate a prosecution for a serious crime," which meant that there were no due process impediments to the statutory authorization for seizure.
In Hurtado v. California the point decided was that the provision of the fourteenth amendment of the constitution which forbids any state to 'deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law' did not require an indictment by a grand jury in a prosecution for a capital crime in a state court.
In a prosecution for a violation of subsection (a)(9), (other than a violation consisting of producing or trafficking) it is an affirmative defense (which the defendant must establish by a preponderance of the evidence) that the conduct charged was engaged in for research or development in connection with a lawful purpose.
The nearest approach to a prosecution for an election offense under § 5508 is the Yarbrough Case (110 U. S. 656, 28 L. ed. 275, 4 Sup. Ct. Rep. 152).
In a prosecution for an offense under this section, the Government is not required to prove the defendant knew that the offense from which the criminally derived property was derived was specified unlawful activity.
To ask, in these circumstances, that petitioners await such a prosecution for an adjudication of their self-incrimination claims is, in effect, to contend that they should be denied the protection of the Fifth Amendment privilege intended to relieve claimants of the necessity of making a choice between incriminating themselves and risking serious punishments for refusing to do so.
"While there were reasonable grounds to suspect the commission of offences involving serious or complex fraud, a detailed review of the available evidence led us to the conclusion that the alleged conduct, even if proven and taken at its highest, would not meet the evidential test required to mount a prosecution for an offence contrary to English law," the SFO said.
A Spanish court dropped a prosecution for dealing in fakes because of Moore's advanced age.
