The phrase "assumed prosecutions" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing legal matters where prosecutions are taken for granted or presumed to occur based on certain conditions or evidence.
Example: "The report highlighted the assumed prosecutions that would follow the new legislation aimed at reducing crime rates."
Alternatives: "presumed prosecutions" or "expected prosecutions".
However, these arguments assume that prosecutions can be brought, that trials will be fair, and the verdicts sound.
Assuming the prosecution is able to establish both guilt and eligibility beyond a reasonable doubt, the jury then decides whether death is the appropriate choice of punishment.
All of which assumes the prosecution is correct and Rodriguez killed her child— a supposition many experts say could rest on shaky science.
It would have been interesting, assuming the prosecution chose not to introduce Zimmerman's statements, to speculate on whether the defense would have chosen to call Zimmerman to testify in his own defense.
The case became a cause célèbre in leftist circles, where it was assumed that the prosecution and eventual execution of the pair in 1927 was motivated by reactionary and xenophobic politics.
Since the prosecution assumed anyone dressed in tartan was guilty, Ferguson and Lockhart had their servants dress in tartan and appear along with the other defendants.
(Knox's case is currently on appeal. ) In these cases and others, the prosecution assumes (as many people do) that the rap music in question is sincere – a literal communication or direct reflection of biography.
But short of that, the prosecutor will probably be reluctant to grant an immunity that might possibly trump a prosecution (assuming, of course, the conduct in question is actually criminal).
Throughout his prosecution, Mr. Workman simply assumed that he had fired the fatal shot.
However, the numbers represented here are assumed not to constitute an exhaustive representation of all HIV-related prosecutions for the jurisdictions where our study sites were located and is "likely only a sampling of a much more widespread, but generally undocumented, use of criminal laws against people living with HIV" [ 27] p. 201.
