Sentence examples for are prosecuted as from inspiring English sources

Those with greater quantities are prosecuted as dealers.

The younger ones are often entrusted to carry the guns and even to use them, because if they get caught they are prosecuted as juveniles, which means their records are sealed and they get shorter sentences.

Given the way death-penalty crimes are prosecuted, as the wrongful-conviction scandals in Illinois a few years back showed, a certain number of mistaken convictions are essentially built into the process.

And while most bank robberies are prosecuted as federal crimes, the association is lobbying the state to increase the penalty for note-passing to the level of that for robberies in which guns are used, he said.

"Most white-collar people are prosecuted as a result of something that they did professionally," he says, "so they've been disbarred, had their medical license revoked or been banned from the securities industry".

Moreover, hiding evidence from individuals who are prosecuted as a result of such surveillance is antithetical to our fundamental right to an open criminal justice system".

If those leaders can be prosecuted, then I am ready to be prosecuted as well".

Mr. Chirac himself cannot be prosecuted as long as he is president.

The courts ruled last year that he could not be prosecuted as long as he was president.

Those who participated in the Saints' bounty pool should be prosecuted as well as fined or suspended.

But he added: "We do have a view that it should be prosecuted as humanely as possible".