Yesterday, an assistant United States attorney, Patricia E. Notopoulos, said the order was that "people were to be killed because of the manner in which they engaged in certain prosecutions".
While some of the United States attorneys fired in 2006 complained that they lost their jobs in a political purge because they resisted efforts by Republican lawmakers to encourage or discourage certain prosecutions, no explanation emerged as to why Mr. Bogden specifically had lost his job.
The extraordinary chambers in the courts of Cambodia - which is designed to bring to account those most responsible for the crimes of the Khmer Rouge - has been stymied as senior government officials publicly refuse to "allow" certain prosecutions to proceed and withhold the testimony of witnesses Phnom Penh would rather not be heard.
For the first time in decades, it is possible to utter the words "Armenian genocide" there without facing certain criminal prosecution.
Language that blocks the feds spending tax dollars on certain marijuana prosecutions has been included in every federal budget passed since 2014, but it's still not a total guarantee of safety.
As a senator, Mr. Berlusconi enjoys certain immunities from prosecution or detention.
All are safe in Indonesia and, as long as they stay there, are almost certain to escape prosecution.Such impunity is not confined to East Timor.
It includes new powers to grant victims certain immunities from prosecution and arrest if they can show they were coerced into sex work or the drugs trade.
Intended to prevent so-called Dumpster babies, newborns abandoned to possible death by desperate young mothers, the laws in all other states specify that people may drop off infants, up to a certain age, without prosecution.
In a letter published by Iranian news sites, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the head of the powerful judiciary, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, of protecting "certain individuals" from prosecution for economic corruption who are widely understood to be high officials, including Ayatollah Larijani's oldest brother.
In conceding that prosecutors would probably not win a conviction against Mr. Tankleff, Mr. Spota seemed to take issue with the Appellate Division's opinion by insisting that the real impediment was not new evidence pointing to someone else, but the new restrictions against certain types of prosecution.
