This is complicated by legal constraints (Chalk 2010; Gill 1996; Hawkins 2009; Kraska and Wilson 2011; Murphy 2011; Sterio 2011) and delays associated with defining and codifying piracy, wrangling diplomatic efforts, financing prosecutions, crafting international agreements and establishing legal jurisdiction (Fokas 1997; Hong and Ng 2010).
John Edwards claims that protection against self-incrimination in his campaign finance prosecution should prevent an attempt to depose him in another case involving a purported sex tape made with his mistress.
The latest failure in a terrorism-financing prosecution came late in 2007, when a Texas jury failed to render any guilty verdicts in the trial of HLF.
In recent years, prosecutors have had mixed success in terrorism-financing prosecutions.
Nonetheless, government terror-financing prosecutions have been reasonably successful.
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the government's track record has been decidedly spottier, and its failure to obtain a single conviction on Monday in its terrorism-financing prosecution of what was once the nation's largest Islamic charity was another in a series of missteps and setbacks.
The judge in this case, T.S. Ellis, has written that even though the charges concern Manafort's finances, the prosecution's goal is applying pressure to Manafort to get him to tell special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators everything he knows about Trump.
Mr. Bledsoe said the county financed the prosecutions of "four or five" murders last year.
Sri Lanka faces this month a meeting in Paris of aid donors, who may question whether they ought to be financing indirectly the prosecution of its war against the Tigers.Both sides may also be feeling war fatigue.
At most, the evidence would seem to justify charging Mellon with conspiring to subvert campaign-finance laws, though in the event those laws were not subverted, since her money did not go toward financing the Edwards campaign.The prosecution's argument is that the payments to Ms Hunter were structured to avoid campaign-finance laws.
Holding high legislative and executive office provides access to a patronage system, protection for business, access to public finance, and immunity from prosecution.
