Sentence examples for contested prosecutions from inspiring English sources

The proposed bans will only lead to arbitrary and contested prosecutions which increase polarisation, not reconciliation.

Nevill was described in court as 6' 4" tall and in good physical health, a point that became significant because Bamber's defence was that Sheila, a slim woman of 28, was able to beat and subdue her father, something the prosecution contested.

That letter could have been the basis of an agreement, the judge suggested, which would have made the bitterly contested and highly divisive prosecution unnecessary.

These prosecutions are then contested in court, and court decisions then reinforce or revise the law.

The evidence was also disputed and the prosecution case hotly contested.

However, Wheeler's QC, James Wood, told the court she would have vigorously contested the charges if the prosecution had gone ahead.

One Majeed claim previously heard in court, that an unspecified number of Australians had been involved in spot-fixing events at international cricket matches, was contested by one of the prosecution's expert witnesses.

The question of necessity for the wiretaps has been hotly contested since the start of the prosecution of Mr. Rajaratnam.

But in this case, a pretty unique situation happened where the bargain was contested before the Supreme Court and the prosecution was forced to go into details with regard to the shortcomings of its case".

From the outset the situation is contested in the sense that the prosecution and the defence seek opposite outcomes.

But the use of wiretaps in prosecutions of financial crime is contested territory; Rajaratnam's lawyers asked a court to set aside his conviction, arguing that the wiretaps violated his constitutional right to privacy.