Sentence examples for despite the prosecutions from inspiring English sources

However despite the prosecutions, Alan Collins, a UK-based solicitor representing nearly 40 former residents, believes going to the High Court is the only way they will get compensation.

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.

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.

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.

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".

And it permitted Mr. Baez, Ms. Anthony's lawyer, to create a reasonable doubt in jurors' minds — despite the prosecution's relentless portrayal of her as a callous liar who sought to kill Caylee so she could lead a carefree life of boyfriends and bars.

Sandiford was sentenced to death despite the prosecution seeking a 15-year sentence.