This means a suspect can be prosecuted regardless of where the crime was committed, or the nationality of the perpetrator or victim.
But she said Brazil had worked hard to encourage women to come forward to report rapes, and she contended that perpetrators would be prosecuted regardless of the backgrounds of the assailants or the victims.
If campaigns commit election law violations they should be prosecuted, regardless of party.
But advocates say older high schoolers dating their younger counterparts is an innocuous, everyday occurrence that is not prosecuted – regardless of sexual orientation – and not a crime on a par with predatory sex offences.
You's detention occurred against the backdrop of the Trump administration's zero tolerance unauthorized immigration policy, under which adults apprehended after crossing the border are jailed and criminally prosecuted, regardless of whether they are traveling with their children.
AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. 22 (AP) — Texas laws allow the killing of a fetus to be prosecuted as murder, regardless of the stage of development, but the laws do not apply to abortions, the state's highest criminal court has ruled.
"It would be wrong to impose different standards because they were celebrities; we prosecute regardless of who the people are.
His pursuit of General Pinochet relied on universal jurisdiction, a legal principle asserting that heinous crimes like torture and genocide may be prosecuted in any country, regardless of who the victims or perpetrators were.
In some states, the protection from prosecution is incomplete, e.g. in Arkansas, women are exempt from being prosecuted for the homicide of their own fetuses, but may be prosecuted for battery of their fetuses (Murphy, 2014: 865).
Will anyone be prosecuted as a result of the inquiry?
An individual who kills another can, then, be prosecuted for the crime of murder.
