Sentence examples for despite prosecution from inspiring English sources

Despite prosecution objections and admonitions from Judge Maxfield to end their "fishing expedition," defense lawyers say they were able to gather new details.

The men, Octave Durham and Henk Bieslijn, Dutch nationals, were given four-and-a-half-year sentences by a Dutch court, despite prosecution requests for five and six years, respectively.

It took 13 years for a court in Mumbai to convict actor Salman Khan of culpable homicide and sentence him to five years in prison despite prosecution witnesses turning hostile.

The trial went forward despite the prosecution's call for an acquittal.

Despite the prosecution's evidence, including DNA, she said, she believed her son was innocent.

Despite the prosecution of more than 90 miners on riot charges, not one was convicted.

All of this happened despite the prosecution admitting in court that no major public order incidences took place on the day.

None of the officials sentenced in the trials has yet gone to prison, despite the prosecution's contention that they should have begun serving their sentences immediately after the high court announced them in November.

The judge said that despite the prosecution case that the amounts stolen were part of a larger theft, he could only pass sentence on counts on which Nadir had been convicted.

Despite the prosecution's success in limiting the scope of Dr. Fyfe's testimony, the former police lieutenant, managed to convey his opinion that the officers had followed police procedure and had adhered to their primary mission: "To protect life".

Two British al-Jazeera journalists and a Dutch freelancer were sentenced to a decade in jail in absentia – despite the prosecution, according to trial observers Amnesty International, failing "to produce a single shred of solid evidence".