'grounds for prosecution' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when making a legal argument or discussing the intent to pursue criminal charges against someone. For example: "The police found evidence of financial fraud, providing grounds for prosecution."
He reviewed possible grounds for prosecution, eliminating those that involved any intentional setting of a fire.
To this day, uttering the words "Armenian genocide" can be grounds for prosecution in Turkey.
In fact, I can't quite see why there aren't grounds for prosecution.
As a further safeguard against frivolous charges, the ICC's "pre-trial chamber" must decide at the start whether there are reasonable grounds for prosecution.
Amnesty says the months-long investigation is the most thorough to date and provides the spade work for war crimes trials by documenting five separate grounds for prosecution.
It maintains two sets of books, he said, exhuming an old — and discredited — accusation that would have been grounds for prosecution if true.
Earlier this year, in a report on the so-called Travelgate case, involving the firing of seven White House employees, Mr. Ray likewise found no ground for prosecution.
"Expressing ideas and manifesting Salafist opinions is not grounds enough for prosecution," he added.
But in past decades, when membership in Hizmet (or any Islamic movement in Turkey) constituted grounds for possible prosecution, its members kept a low profile, often hiding their affiliation.
In response to the outpouring of hate on Twitter after Carrasco's death, Diaz called on May 13 for an investigation into whether spreading offensive or derogatory messages on social media could be grounds for criminal prosecution.
"That would be grounds for the prosecution to say it wasn't a reasonable response and it wasn't reasonable self-defence, because the other cops didn't respond in the same way".
