"Tragedies are often followed by demands for prosecution and those demands are likely to be tied to this case as precedent," Turley said.
The video of the events leading to Garner's death went viral, and public outrage and demands for prosecution of the officer who had placed him in the choke-hold quickly mounted.
As the force of the Second Great Awakening waned, the demand for blasphemy prosecutions dissipated.
A fellow Pushtun, his royal links make him a strong potential "unity candidate" for the presidential election due in 2009.Some observers link the Front's creation to popular demands for the prosecution of suspected war criminals.
The murders have highlighted the vulnerability of prostitutes and the lack of action taken by the government, whether to be more punitive in the hope of reducing the numbers of prostitutes on the streets, to move towards legalised brothels and other measures to improve the safety of the women, or to target the demand for prostitution through prosecution of the clients, as is done in Sweden.
Antigovernment activists in Yemen said in recent days that they were worried that the United States would grant Mr. Saleh refuge and that if it did, they would demand he be returned for prosecution at home.
The ACLU and Human Rights Watch letter formalises a chorus of demands for criminal prosecutions that broke out after the publication of the Senate torture report.
But Mr. Chesney said the most important job for counterterrorism officials was to set up initial interrogations to balance demands for intelligence against the requirements for prosecution.
PARIS — In one of the most surprising verdicts of its checkered prosecution of Balkan war crimes, a United Nations court on Thursday acquitted two close aides of the former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, spurning the prosecution's demand for life sentences for his once all-powerful secret police chief and the chief's deputy.
In one of the most surprising verdicts of its checkered prosecution of Balkan war crimes, a United Nations court on Thursday acquitted two close aides of the former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, spurning the prosecution's demand for life sentences for his once all-powerful secret police chief and the chief's deputy.
Following public outrage and a demand for a speedy trial and prosecution, on 24 December, the police promised to file the charge sheet within one week.
