Sentence examples for current prosecutions from inspiring English sources

John Kerry's challenge to Snowden to return and face trial is either disingenuous or simply ignorant that current prosecutions under the Espionage Act allow no distinction whatever between a patriotic whistleblower and a spy.

Mr. White said that while no current prosecutions seemed affected by the misplaced evidence, he was hopeful that the recovered evidence could establish the innocence of wrongfully convicted prisoners.

Attorney General John Ashcroft said that the court's decision would make prosecuting child pornography "immeasurably more difficult" but that the Justice Department would try to preserve current prosecutions by filing superseding indictments under other laws.

But even if people have heard such a message from current prosecutions and new regulations, Rudolph W. Giuliani, who as United States attorney in the 1980's led the Boesky and Milken prosecutions, suggested that the effect may fade over time.

I pointed out that few, if any, in our community would disagree with his distinction--but that in reality the current prosecutions are not of those high-level officials who regularly leak to the press to advance their policy agendas.

Their 2011 film "Grantio: How to Nail a Dictator" tells of Spanish lawyers who sought to bring Guatemalan leaders to trial, of current prosecutions and of the value of their interview with the dictator as evidence against him.

Dr. Sheppard's son and his supporters, the article said, maintain that some of the earlier prosecutors brought pressure on the current prosecution team.

Another worry about the current prosecution of Mr. Chen is purely political: Some members of Mr. Chen's Democratic Progressive Party warn that it is creating a precedent for the prosecution of former presidents as soon as they leave office.

The rate at which juries rejected the death penalty in the federal trials, over about the last year, is sharply higher than in earlier years in the federal system and in current state prosecutions, Justice Department records and lawyers around the country say.

Taxpayers may also question why the government is so willing to take such vast sums of money out of U.S. enforcement agency coffers and reward it to whistle-blowers, particularly where there appears to be no shortage of current FCPA prosecutions and investigations.

In December, Iceland's largest-circulation newspaper, Frettabladid – also part of Johannesson's wife's 365 Media empire – featured detailed coverage of claims by the former Baugur boss that his current criminal prosecution is part of a campaign of "persecution" by the "jealous" Icelandic business and political establishment stretching back 10 years.