Sentence examples for improper prosecution from inspiring English sources

The governor declared a moratorium after Illinois saw 13 people freed from death row amid new evidence of innocence or improper prosecution.

In an interview, Mr. Tanella's lawyer, Lawrence A. Berger, said the federal court should protect Mr. Tanella from what he described as an improper prosecution.

After the verdict Mr. Manso assailed it and continued to gather material to support his claims that it was the result of improper prosecution, corrupt police work, a bumbling crime lab and racist jurors.

Outside the courtroom, Thomas Puccio, his lawyer, said it was "totally improper" for the prosecution to assail Mr. Donohue as a "target" in front of a jury.

The courts dismissed some on the ground of improper arrest & ordered prosecution suspended on others... Some of the people arrested were lawbreakers and some were not.

In numerous other cases, recanted testimony by prosecution witnesses, improper rulings by the judge or misconduct by the prosecutors resulted in convictions that had to be reversed.

Coombs contends that the president exerted improper sway on the prosecution of Manning by making comments about him at a fundraising event in April in which he said Manning "broke the law".

Richard Strong, a key target in New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's prosecution of improper trading in mutual funds, hasn't committed any crime, his lawyer said.

The judge, Acting Justice Steven Barrett of State Supreme Court, found that the prosecution had given improper instructions to the grand jury that indicted the officer, Richard Haste.

Prudential Financial entered into a deferred prosecution in 2006 over improper mutual fund trading.

Mr. Wulff resigned on Friday, after prosecutors asked Parliament to strip him of his immunity from prosecution over accusations of improper ties to businessmen.