Sentence examples for absurd prosecution from inspiring English sources

The historian Otto Friedrich has called this an "absurd prosecution" of an "ancient statute", yet if Chaplin was found guilty, he faced 23 years in jail.

But it was she who presided over the absurd prosecutions of journalists which collapsed in the Operation Elveden fiasco.

The Davydova affair was of a piece with other punitive and, at times, absurd prosecutions that had taken place since Vladimir Putin's return to the Presidency in May of 2012, a period of purposefully heightened suspicion and hostility.

The situation they find themselves in, facing threatened criminal prosecution, is absurd.

We would have been in the absurd situation of paying for prosecution and defence.

In his ruling, the judge, Nicholas G. Garaufis of Brooklyn Federal Court, called the case an "ill-advised prosecution" that included "absurd assertions" and fanciful arguments.

The long-running political drama starring Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's relentless campaign to democratically reform Malaysia's government of its corruption and nepotism recently took another absurd turn with his criminal prosecution for allegedly sodomising a former aide.

Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard Law professor who founded Creative Commons to advocate greater sharing of creative material online, called the prosecution's case absurd and said that boxing in Mr. Swartz with an aggressive case and little ability to mount a defense "made it make sense to this brilliant but troubled boy to end it".

Knox, however, only helped the prosecution along, engaging in absurd, even callous behaviour after the murder.

And so for the prosecution to quickly assign an absurd word for my motion — the term absurd — THe COURt: Right.

In her tedious three-hour reading of the sentence, Judge Marina Syrova repeated the same absurd phrasings that were heard from the prosecution during the hearings.