A second prosecution witness, Nancy Blanchard, the assistant manager of the rink, also began testifying today and appeared to undercut the defense argument that Mr. Junta was acting in self-defense.
In January this year, about two weeks after his release, county authorities abandoned their second prosecution of Byrket for resisting arrest, dating from when they arrested him for resisting arrest the first time.
Beck's public call for criminal charges against a police officer who fatally shot an unarmed homeless man in Venice immediately spurred others to demand that Lacey file what would be her agency's first prosecution of an officer in an on-duty shooting in more than 15 years.
Pro-choice campaigners in Northern Ireland will stage demonstrations this weekend to protest against the first prosecution of a woman in 40 years for procuring an abortion for herself.
It's the first prosecution of a company for the act of "biopiracy" in the country, and possibly the world.
It is the first prosecution of a member of Mr. Thaksin's family since the Sept. 19 coup.
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust was accused of corporate manslaughter over the death of schoolteacher Frances Cappuccini, 30, in the first prosecution of a health service body since the offence was introduced in 2008.
But the judge barred what would be the first prosecution of a former president in modern Mexican history, dismissing the charges on the grounds that the 30-year statute of limitations had run out.
The timing of the concession will please the court's critics in Africa and elsewhere who claim that the ICC is singling out Africans with its first prosecution of a sitting head of state.It came at the same time as Kenya filed its latest request to the UN Security Council for a 12-month deferral of proceedings against Mr Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, in separate but related trials.
1972) —both brought by U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Herbert Jay Stern (later a federal judge)—were the first prosecution of political corruption pursuant to the economic fear prong and the "under color of official right" prong of the Hobbs Act, respectively.
