Sentence examples for impede prosecution from inspiring English sources

A police spokesman said that the charge sheet would be corrected, with a new name, and legal experts said the mistake would not impede prosecution in the mass shooting that left 50 people dead.

In a decision that would dramatically impede the prosecution's ability to secure convictions and lock people away, Scalia condemned this practice.

Whatever the outcome of the negotiations, Mr. Holbrooke said the State Department was not impeding the prosecution of the case.

In separate interviews, the two lawmakers said they would not support legislation to impede state prosecutions of fraud or other violations.

She left New Delhi in a huff after Mr. Vajpayee rejected demands for ministerial posts and other concessions that could have impeded the prosecution of Ms. Jayaram and several associates on corruption charges stemming from her five-year tenure, ending in 1996, as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu state.

And even more powerful impediments came in the form of chronic dissembling from African and international leaders, many of whom, including powerful members of the George Bush administration, felt sensitive to having their records called into question in an international court and thus impeded the prosecution.

A truth commission investigated some of the worst massacres of the war, but El Salvador's Congress passed the amnesty law that impeded the prosecution of alleged war crimes.

When a federal court released former Confederate president Davis on bail on May 13 (he had been captured shortly after the war), the committee investigated whether the President had impeded the prosecution.

Many have speculated that the police thought that the existence of the law would impede Mr Zimmerman's prosecution.

Mr. Essebsi has repeatedly said that the country should move on, and that prosecutions would impede economic progress.

Lieutenant Corina declined to say whether Mr. Davern might face penalties for having earlier misled the authorities, but he said prosecution for impeding an investigation with false information was hypothetically possible.