Sentence examples for changes in prosecution from inspiring English sources

Because of changes in prosecution and incarceration policies around the country, the prison population in the United States dropped last year for the third straight year, representing the biggest decline in the nation's history.

To assist with answering that question, the Panel describes the regulation of assisted death in those jurisdictions in the world where assisted suicide and/or voluntary euthanasia have, to some extent and by various means, become more permissible (whether by legislative changes such as in Oregon, or changes in prosecution policy such as in England and Wales).

He added, "It clearly should result in a significant change in prosecution policy, and one would earnestly hope in the attitude of many pediatricians".

Abrupt changes in the prosecution's case fed rumors of a coverup.

The previous government did begin some changes in military prosecutions.

Moreover, short of a change in the prosecution's strategy, the McDonnells are likely to have a long, well-represented public airing of their case.

The courts have often diminished the damaging reality of this crime and although much has changed in the prosecution of rape, the idea that women or girls provoke or at least collude in sex that results in violence remains part of our mythology.

Defense lawyers and drug reform advocates, stung by years of piecemeal policy changes that have only reined in prosecution and arrest tactics bit by bit, said the plans did not yet offer any assurances that the decades-long era of mass enforcement of marijuana laws was over.

She is working with Beneath Our Wings, a coalition of organizations and individuals seeking changes in laws on the prosecution of children, to organize a symposium on juvenile justice.

Despite not being charged, after inquiries in 1970 , 1998 and 1999, the CPS stressed changes in procedure mean a prosecution would be pursued today.

A19 Aiding Abuse Prosecutions Changes in California state law have made it easier to prosecute child molesting cases, legal scholars and veteran prosecutors said.