Judge Polster denied a defense request to ban evidence about Mr. Mullet's sexual counseling, accepting the prosecution argument that his tight control over the community was central to the case.
Judge Willem Van der Merwe said he had difficulty accepting the prosecution's version of the sexual encounter and rejected the accuser's argument that she saw Mr Zuma as a father figure.
She was reported to have ready a million dollars for his bail (the judge in the case, however, refused to let him post it, accepting the prosecution's argument that Strauss-Kahn, like Roman Polanski, was a flight risk); and she jumped on a plane, which has, by now, landed, to be at his side.
We would be appalled if persons who were rich and famous avoided prosecution or received lenient treatment because of their status, but we seem content to accept selective prosecution for the same reasons.
This official went on, "The black guys" — those in the Pentagon's secret program — "say we've got to accept the prosecution.
But the jurors accepted the prosecution case that he "systematically selected and murdered" the women over a six-and-a-half-week period.
Jackson also notes, as I point out in my article, that Willingham refused to accept the prosecution's offer to plead guilty and take a life sentence.
But judges for the first time accepted the prosecution's argument he was an accessory to mass murder simply by having worked as a guard at the camp.
But she accepted the prosecution's argument that it would not need to show that Manning had any direct contact with an actual enemy.
The court accepted the prosecution's decision to drop four charges of murder, cruelty and the destruction of villages during the war in Croatia in the early 1990's.
