Sentence examples for harder prosecutions from inspiring English sources

I drew on the arguments of Professor David Cesarani: with very old defendants, investigations are harder, prosecutions riskier, convictions less sound and the unseemly public spectacle of a prostrate, ill man wheeled into a courtroom was counterproductive.

Tough prosecutions.

Most political analysts do not expect her to press forward very hard with prosecutions of officers implicated in an array of human rights abuses like those committed in East Timor when it gained its independence in 1999.

The feeling at Westminster at present is that if victim groups or their political allies pushed too hard for prosecutions, it could rupture an uneasy truce in Northern Ireland.

"This was probably the hardest F.C.P.A. prosecution the government has ever brought.

Coordination is important, but it seems a far cry from a hard-charging prosecution, especially as potential violations draw closer to expiration under statutes of limitation for financial crimes.

The tragedy of these Nazi-era cases is that in almost every non-legal respect time cannot be ignored: it makes investigations harder, it makes prosecutions riskier, it makes convictions less sound, and it creates the spectacle of doddery old men facing charges for actions committed three generations ago.

Local corruption is a major issue with ordinary citizens, but kickbacks and favoritism are widely acknowledged to be widespread at the highest levels of government, where the rewards can be much greater and prosecution much harder.

But it was much harder on the British prosecution, which it said had abused the judicial process in opposing bail for the suspect, had tried to circumvent the law and had relied on "unsubstantiated assertions".

But as the Met's statement said, the lack of system in accounting for MPs expenses would have made a prosecution hard to enforce.

Legal experts said New York double jeopardy law is harder on prosecutors, generally forbidding prosecutions based on the same transaction.