Sentence examples for effect in the prosecution from inspiring English sources

Scott Horton, an expert in human rights law at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler in New York, said the memorandums would have a practical effect in the prosecution of civilians who engaged in abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan.

What is more, the Defense Department (in effect, the prosecution) was not only defining the crimes worthy of trial by military tribunal but also doing so only after hundreds of suspects were already in custody and had been repeatedly interrogated.

Having separate trials is likely to reduce the effect of the prosecution of one of the most notorious acts of violence in the civil rights struggle.

In effect, everything else the prosecution introduced and the defense fulminated over was frosting.

In effect, Grimes was the prosecution: the only person on the ground who backed up the claim that Bahmanzadeh and Costelloe were enabling the sale of class A substances.

In effect, Grimes was the prosecution: the only person on the ground who backed up the claim that Manoucehr and Tom were enabling the sale of class A substances.

Now that the year's "deferred prosecution" has expired, the bank is in effect in the clear.

"She may benefit from a successful prosecution, but she has no legal interest in the prosecution".

Still, there were glaring holes in the prosecution's case.

So this aids in the prosecution of these cases".

Focus your argument on a weaker point in the prosecution.