Sentence examples for exempted from prosecution from inspiring English sources

By a vote of 82 to 59, the House exempted from prosecution anyone who uses the drug after obtaining approval from a doctor.

Romania sent its own troops to Afghanistan and became the first country to support the American demand that American soldiers be exempted from prosecution by the International Criminal Court.

Further, by 2002, China, Russia, and the United States had declined to participate, and the United States had threatened to withdraw its troops from United Nations peacekeeping forces unless its citizens (both military and civilian) were exempted from prosecution by the ICC.

In May of last year, the Upper House committee conducting the inquiry recommended that people dying from diseases such as cancer and end-stage HIV and their carers be exempted from prosecution for possession of a very small amount of crude cannabis.

Certain nonconformist Christian groups were exempted from prosecution by the Toleration Act of 1689, and the Quakers were amongst these.

He was subsequently exempted from prosecution.

An amnesty law exempting from prosecution anyone suspected of committing anti-German crimes between May and November 1945 remains in place.

Tyrannicides were often celebrated in antiquity, and some Classical states even legislated to exempt from prosecution those who killed a tyrant or would-be tyrant.

Writing for the Utah Supreme Court, Justice Jill N. Parrish, said: "We reverse the trial court's decision, holding that Utah law incorporates a federal regulation exempting from prosecution members of the Native American Church who use peyote in bona fide religious ceremonies.

This probably underestimates the antisocial activity, perhaps especially among those individuals with severe mental retardation which often are exempted from criminal prosecution.

Until the announcement of the zero tolerance policy, adults traveling with their minor children were generally exempted from criminal prosecutions, a policy that was well known throughout Mexico and Central America.