"heavily prosecuted" is both correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe a situation in which someone or something is subject to rigorous legal action, such as a criminal trial. For example, "The businessman was heavily prosecuted and eventually sentenced to five years in prison."
It also added that when this still-classified information was published, the CIA did not, as a matter of policy, submit crime reports – highlighting a gulf between officially sanctioned leaks and non-sanctioned whistleblowing, the latter of which is often heavily prosecuted.
Bratton's acceptance speech was terse although, for what it's worth, he does give great speeches and he spent a good bit of it discussing the by-now-old-hat story of how he cleaned up New York using his now-notorious "broken windows" style of policing, in which lower-level offenses are heavily prosecuted as a means of deterring more serious crimes.
Campaigners say the bill is tilted too heavily towards prosecuting traffickers, without providing enough support for their victims.
In the report, Sered observes that, while more Americans are finally taking note of "the disproportionate involvement of young men of color in the criminal-justice system as those responsible for crime" (in other words, those most heavily policed and prosecuted), there remains a large gap in the picture.
This was done previously – people were prosecuted and heavily fined".
There are many overlapping causes, among them severe automated federal sentencing rules; a passionate but badly managed "war on drugs" prosecuted most heavily in African-American neighborhoods; and deepening inequalities in personal income and access to education, whose effects fall hardest on urban teen-agers.
The measure was part of a broader set of prohibitions that the administration has relied heavily on in prosecuting people in Lackawanna, N.Y., Portland, Ore., Detroit and elsewhere accused of providing money, training, Internet services and other "material support" to terrorist groups.
John A. Connelly, Waterbury's state attorney who prosecuted the case, said the appellate court's ruling weighed heavily in deciding to offer the plea bargain.
The decision not to prosecute relied heavily on a ruling by the Lords clerk to allow peers to nominate their first and second homes, and that the definition of a primary home was one which the member visited at least once a month.
An image posted today on the blog, Hydeordie, shows what looks like a new Banksy artwork, one that features a masked and heavily armed individual standing above the words "Vandals found vandalizing this vandalism will be prosecuted".
