A 1996 law concerning war crimes allows prosecutions for violations of some provisions of the Geneva Conventions, including those prohibiting torture, "outrages upon personal dignity" and "humiliating and degrading treatment".
On the other hand, dealing with events dating back many years is difficult for all concerned, whether prosecution witness or defendant.
Yet, despite the concerns, in 2012 no further prosecutions for child sex exploitation took place in Rotherham.
I am concerned at the increasing number of criminal prosecutions for "offensive" speech.
This article concerns the prosecution of defensive dishonesty in the course of federal investigations.
The jurors sent one note asking for a repeat of information they had heard during the two-week trial concerning two of the prosecution's main witnesses.
They were concerned about the potential to overwhelm legal systems with new prosecutions for HIV nondisclosure if there is a change in valuing mutual responsibility among members of the gay community.
The Indian supreme court recently expressed concern at the low numbers of convictions in prosecutions for sex crimes.
Brothers Jeff and Ben — who requested their real names and exact location be omitted out of concern for prosecution — had spent the morning tending to their cannabis plants, as they do every day.
Concern has also been raised about the extent to which criminal prosecutions for the transmission of HIV hamper trusting relationships between HIV service providers and service users (Lowbury & Kinghorn, 2006).
490, a statute secured to a witness, called to testify concerning unlawful gaming, immunity against prosecution for any offense committed by him at the time and place indicated, and it was held that, as it gave to the witness full indemnity and assurance against any liability to prosecution, it was his duty to testify, notwithstanding that his answer might have a tendency to disgrace him.
