The grand jury investigation stemmed from reports that Nixon had accepted a gratuity from a Mississippi businessman in exchange for asking a local district attorney to halt the prosecution of the businessman's son.
The ones I talked to know that to take down a Swedish prosecutor's website does not halt the prosecution in Sweden.
To summarize, we hold that the Board may not halt the prosecution of a state-court lawsuit, regardless of the plaintiff's motive, unless the suit lacks a reasonable basis in fact or law.
WASHINGTON — A former American official charged with kidnapping in Italy in the 2003 seizure of a radical Muslim cleric filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to force the State Department to invoke diplomatic immunity to halt the prosecution.
Last week, one of the defendants, Sabrina De Sousa, filed a lawsuit in United States District Court in Washington demanding that the State Department invoke diplomatic immunity to halt the prosecution and pay her legal bills and costs associated with the case.
We must decide whether the Board may issue a cease-and-desist order to halt the prosecution of a state court civil suit brought by an employer to retaliate against employees for exercising federally-protected labor rights, without also finding that the suit lacks a reasonable basis in fact or law.
American lawyers acting for Mr. Polanski waged two legal battles to try to halt the prosecution and then to win a trial in absentia, and no decision on his extradition could be taken until these processes had been resolved, the official, Guido Balmer, a spokesman for the Swiss Justice Ministry, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.
South Africa has the continent's largest economy, and while the decision to halt the prosecution may spare the country the discomfort of being led by a defendant in a corruption case, it did not resolve the underlying allegations that Mr. Zuma, the leader of the governing African National Congress, thrived off 783 payments over a decade's time from a convicted briber.
Asked whether the information had been handed over by MI5 and, if so, how long the agency had possessed the material, the Home Office said it would inappropriate to comment, on the grounds that the decision to halt the prosecution had been taken by the police and CPS.
