One can question whether Bond should be prosecuted under the Federal law in question, and one can ask how we balance Bond's rights, states rights, and treaty obligations.
Ankrom was one of the first women to be prosecuted under Alabama's chemical-endangerment law.
Nearly one third (32%) of people were not aware that they will always be prosecuted under local law if they broke the law abroad, with 6% thinking they would be prosecuted under UK law, 22% thinking it depended on the country, and 4% admitting to not knowing at all.
The informant stated, "I don't want to invite a situation in which the physician in charge could be prosecuted under the legal framework in this country".
But while that law, called Article 301, is known to many in the West — Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist, was prosecuted under 301 — it is just one of many laws that limit freedom of expression for intellectuals in Turkey.
No one's been prosecuted under Arizona's law yet—and the idea of someone getting charged in one of the aforementioned scenarios is rather unlikely.
No one had ever been prosecuted under those statutes, according to court testimony, and proving the charges, one prosecutor acknowledged, was "hardly a slam dunk".
No one has been prosecuted under the law since 2005, but police allegedly use it to intimidate gay Jamaicans.
So if history shows that proposed anti-price-gouging legislation has fallen flat on its face, and if two federal agencies have said they haven't found any evidence of price gouging by oil and natural gas companies, and no one has been prosecuted under existing laws for price fixing, then why the new legislation?
True, no one has been prosecuted under the law in more than 70 years; charges against the Canadian distributor of the Monty Python film Life of Brian in 1980, for example, were later dropped.
