Sentence examples for block prosecution from inspiring English sources
For two days, Mr. Muhammad had stumbled gamely but mostly ineffectively through an opening argument, cross-examinations and attempts to block prosecution evidence.
The Chilean Foreign Ministry has announced it would conduct an administrative investigation of what the Ministry might have done to block prosecution of the case under the Pinochet Government.
Louise Christian, a solicitor representing eight of the bereaved families, accused the government of taking a political decision to block prosecutions.
Now, after decades of silence, Chileans are protesting in the streets for the reversal of amnesty laws that block prosecutions for the killings after the coup.
He has been an MP in the new Afghan parliament, which passed an immunity law to block prosecutions for past crimes, but now he is a presidential candidate his former life will come under intense scrutiny.
It can also block prosecutions by invoking the ICC tenet of "complementarity," which recognizes national courts as having the first call for instituting legal proceedings.
They much prefer someone who will not flip over the flat rock of the blocked prosecution of heavy Clinton contributors.
Instead, motivated by early Cold War tensions, U.S. military intelligence in Tokyo insinuated itself into the Tokyo Trial by blocking prosecution access to key witnesses and then classifying incriminating documents.
J. Edgar Hoover, the F.B.I. director, originally blocked prosecution of the case in 1965, overruling his own agents in Birmingham who had filed reports that Robert Chambliss, Thomas Blanton, Bobby Frank Cherry and Herman Cash, now deceased, had planted the bomb.
VICE: How does this kind of confidentiality agreement that Cosby's lawyer says blocked prosecution even get set up in the first place?
My first suggestion to Hagel is that he see The Invisible War with military rape survivors, including those women and men profiled in this award-winning documentary that has exposed the epidemic and spurred calls to change antiquated Pentagon rules that blocked prosecutions and thwarted justice.
