While the Government may be able to prove with reasonable accuracy an increase in net worth over a period of years, it often has great difficulty in relating that income sufficiently to any specific prosecution year.
Trump has called for specific prosecutions, first of Hillary Clinton and more recently of leakers.
Although he could recall no specific prosecutions, Mr. Kortan said such misuse was undoubtedly quite common since more than 50,000 local law-enforcement agencies had direct access to the computer files, which are routinely used, for example, to check whether motorists stopped for traffic violations have criminal records or outstanding warrants.
The city avoided indictment in large part because of a legal concept known as sovereign immunity, which holds a municipality immune from prosecution absent a specific waiver.
Figures published by the CPS in September showed there were no successful prosecutions under a specific forced marriage offence in 2015/16, after its introduction in 2014.
A rarer move is known as blanket papering, when a prosecutor seeks to remove a specific judge from all their prosecutions, Gorin said.
In Attorney General's Reference No. 3 of 1992 19944), on a charge of attempted aggravated arson, it was held to be sufficient for the prosecution to establish a specific intent to cause damage by fire and that the defendant was reckless as to whether life would thereby be endangered.
The document is believed to cast serious doubts on prosecution claims that Megrahi used a specific Swiss timer for the bomb.
They demand that no prosecution could be launched once a specific number of years (probably ten) had passed after the event.
There have been only 13 offshore-specific prosecutions since 2009.
On that drive, according to the prosecution, was a rootkit: a stealthy computer program designed to do a specific task and, in this case, then erase itself.
