Sentence examples for former prosecution from inspiring English sources

A former prosecution spokeswoman for the UN court trying alleged criminals from the 1990s Balkan wars has been released early from the jail where she had been serving a one-week sentence for contempt of court, the tribunal said on Tuesday.

"If civilians are being told that they should leave or risk being deliberately targeted by military forces, that amounts to forcible transfer," Alex Whiting, a former prosecutions coördinator at the I.C.C., who now teaches at Harvard Law School, told me.

In his testimony for the prosecution, former Deputy Chief Inspector Andrew D. Jackson described his sector search.

The decision was based on the expectation that the Argentine Supreme Court would approve the repeal of amnesty laws that had protected former officers from prosecution.

Indeed, it could be that Ernst & Young's cooperation with the I.R.S. is behind the impaneling of a grand jury, several former tax and prosecution experts said.

MOSCOW — Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, a former billionaire whose prosecution by the Russian government has come to symbolize the country's legal failings, lost an appeal on Tuesday to overturn a second conviction.

However, in the Vojislav Šešelj case at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the prosecution's approach was different.

He is a former chief of prosecutions for the tribunal, not the chief prosecutor.

He said his kidnappers were demanding the release of other militants from jail and the prosecution of former Blackwater security guards accused in a shooting that left 17 Iraqis dead in 2007.

Other aspects of the current case evoke another botched case: the 2013 prosecution of former Eli Lilly scientists Guoqing Cao and Shuyu Li.

President Alejandro Toledo urged Japan to hand over former President Alberto K. Fujimori for prosecution.