Sentence examples for back the prosecution from inspiring English sources

His victim was kicked in the head, chest, arms and back, the prosecution said.

Bonner follows along — in many ways "Anatomy of Injustice" is Holt's book more than Elmore's — watching as she peels back the prosecution's omissions, manipulations and deceits, and tries to uncover what really happened in Dorothy Edwards's home on that brutal weekend in 1982.

He had not only expected the President to roll back the prosecutions launched by the Bush Administration; he had thought that Bush Administration officials would be investigated for overstepping the law in the "war on terror".

On top of that were two late-to-the-case "witnesses" — one a heroin addict, the other a homeless man, whose accounts backing the prosecution never held up.

Worldwide condemnation of the arrests and Malawi's laws criminalising homosexuality has had little impact inside the country itself where church leaders and politicians have backed the prosecution.

He also backed the prosecution, even as it declined to charge a soldier who admitted to shooting an unarmed civilian seven times.

There has been no official response from the Kremlin, which is widely seen as having backed the prosecution of Mr. Khodorkovsky as part of a broader campaign to curtail the oil baron's political ambitions.

And then, on November 11th, 50 doctors specialising in child abuse signed a letter supporting the murder verdict, backing the prosecution's claim that the baby had been shaken and slammed against a hard surface, and dismissing the defence's efforts to argue otherwise.These twists expose afresh the paradox of America's judicial system.

He backed the prosecution's claims that Taylor and Powers worked out the details, he acted as an intermediary, and Howard fired the shot.

Meanwhile, a case against Sabas Pretelt, the former interior minister, involving yet another scandal was sent back to the prosecution because of procedural errors.

A Moscow jury embarrassed prosecutors in 2009 by acquitting three of the five defendants, but the Supreme Court threw out the decision and sent the case back to the prosecution.