Sentence examples for expedite prosecutions from inspiring English sources
Cases that allow for exceptions include the "substantial assistance" of a cooperating defendant, the drain on resources that a trial might cause and the Justice Department's approval of a "fast-track" program used to expedite prosecutions, like the type used in Southwest border states to prosecute illegal immigrants.
Despite the efforts to expedite prosecutions, Davis said that most of the politicised convictions still couldn't be secured: "We had identified about 75 detainees as ones who potentially could be prosecuted, but 'could be' did not necessarily mean 'should be'.
In late September, the U.N. Human Rights Council voted overwhelmingly to create an independent body to expedite criminal prosecution of Myanmar generals over their treatment of the Rohingya.
Both established regular meetings of local, state and federal agencies to share information on gun crimes and expedite investigations and prosecutions.
The program, first implemented in Texas in 2005 by the George W. Bush administration, expedites border-crossing prosecutions by charging and convicting defendants in groups and collapsing the process from hearing to conviction into a single day for those who plead guilty.
Implementation of the program varies by district, depending on resources and enforcement priorities, but the program generally aims to increase prosecutions by expediting the judicial process.
A description of the filing indicates that the prosecution asks that Army Col. James Pohl, the judge overseeing Sept. 11 prosecutions, order that an expedited process for declassifying communications should not be "a means for non-privileged communications to circumvent the Joint Task Force Mail System".
Both would expedite service.
"Expedite," he would say.
Was the prosecution politically motivated, either to awaken Americans to the reality of Soviet espionage (as Mr. Sobell acknowledged decades later) or to shift public opinion and expedite another round of wholesale red-baiting?
