That happened in one case with conflicting prosecutions in California.
In 2011, six years after the Supreme Court declined to rule on whether the conflicting prosecutions should invalidate Stumpf's death sentence, the Sixth Circuit Court finally ruled on the question.
Throughout, the book highlights the important themes related to any post-conflict prosecution scheme including rule-of-law concerns, questions of evenhandedness and moral relativism, competing priorities and resource allocation, the limits of a court-centered approach to justice, and the potential transformative power of prosecutions.
The bulk of yesterday's decision was devoted to two separate recitations of the facts, sometimes conflicting, that the prosecution and the defense elicited from Detective Winters.
Before announcing his ruling, the magistrate recounted the four days of conflicting arguments by defense and prosecution lawyers.
Inquiries would take evidence from the same witnesses, raising issues of disclosure, admissibility, conflicting evidence and immunity from prosecution.
But, in a recent canvass of court rulings, I turned up more than four dozen cases, from California to Massachusetts, in which the defense attorney argued in an appeal that the prosecution had told conflicting stories about the crime.
Politicians or journalists who describe the insurgents as authentic representatives of the Kurdish people, or who call for a negotiated end to the conflict, risk prosecution and imprisonment.
The 2007 election violence brought Kenya to the brink of civil war, and in post-conflict states prosecution of perpetrators, and rehabilitation of victims and perpetrators, is important for national reconciliation and rebuilding.
The CPS said the conflict made prosecution difficult, because Patel was the only pathologist to have seen Tomlinson's body intact, placing him in the best position to make a judgment, which meant his evidence would undermine that of the other two pathologists.
