Sentence examples for complicate the prosecution from inspiring English sources

But the decision to remove the soldier from the country may complicate the prosecution, said Michael Waddington, an American military defence lawyer who represented a ringleader of the 2010 thrill killings of three Afghan civilians by soldiers from the same Washington state base as the accused staff sergeant.

His appearance at the gun lobby's annual gathering also came at a moment when its powerful grip on gun legislation is under renewed scrutiny because of permissive self-defense laws it has promoted, like the one in Florida that may complicate the prosecution of George Zimmerman, who killed an unarmed teenager, Trayvon Martin, six weeks ago.

Current and former intelligence officials said that the agency's senior lawyer, John A. Rizzo, had not been notified about the decision and was angered to learn about the destruction of the tapes, which could complicate the prosecution of Abu Zubaydah and others.

Legal experts said the suit would severely complicate the prosecution's efforts, if only by giving Mr. Bryant's lawyers another means to challenge the woman's credibility.

In the Pistorius case, the police again emerged poorly, having, as it seemed, bungled aspects of the forensic investigation in ways that could complicate the prosecution's case that Ms. Steenkamp's death was a case of premeditated murder — and having assigned the case to an officer who turned out to be under investigation in a case of attempted murder himself.

The Pentagon's efforts to gather intelligence from more valuable prisoners were also deeply flawed, military intelligence officers said, complicating the prosecution of some detainees and nearly paralyzing efforts to release others.

But the issue continues to complicate the long-delayed prosecutions now proceeding at Guantánamo.

(One factor that may complicate the issue of state vs. federal prosecution is that federal law offers the possibility of the death penalty but Massachusetts law does not).

"Stripping the HDP MPs of their immunity and launching criminal prosecutions will not resolve the Kurdish issue in Turkey... on the contrary it will complicate the Kurdish issue".

Mr. Müller has said that the destruction of the Tinner files complicated the case's prosecution.

Hunt also noted that student involvement in the act complicated the possibility of prosecution.