The phrase "a prosecution would be" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the potential outcomes or implications of a legal prosecution in a hypothetical context.
Example: "If the evidence is strong enough, a prosecution would be likely to succeed in court."
Alternatives: "a prosecution could be" or "a prosecution might be".
(The PPS will only prosecute if there is a reasonable chance of conviction and if a prosecution would be in the public interest).
According to Scotland Yard, he told the police: "The downstream effects of a prosecution would be apocalyptic.
Media advocates say such a prosecution would be a dangerous precedent for news organizations like The Times that frequently obtain and publish information the government considers classified.
Apparently aware that the election campaign had been extraordinarily polarising, Trump said a prosecution would be "very, very divisive for the country".
A prosecution would be the first sign that Mr. Fujimori's government was breaking with Mr. Montesinos, who has officially been in hiding since he returned here on Oct. 23 after failing to obtain asylum in Panama.
In mid-September 1999, the then home secretary, Jack Straw, announced that, while there was no doubt that the KGB had regarded Norwood as an important spy, he had been advised by the attorney general that a prosecution would be "inappropriate".
She recognized the kind of perverse logic that leads a murderer to think any prosecution would be the state "try[ing] to railroad [him] into the electric chair".
The NAO said HMRC had recognised it needed to "align the cases it selects for criminal investigation more closely with its analysis of risk and how effective a successful prosecution would be in creating a deterrent".
But the officials cautioned that they were far from determining whether they might bring charges against anyone and had not even concluded whether a criminal prosecution would be pursued if they found that a law had been broken.
Rather, it was viewed as a matter committed to the discretion of the trial judge, from which no writ of error would lie nor any plea in bar of a future prosecution would be allowed.
