Neither resulted in a prosecution.
It has yet to result in a prosecution.
In a prosecution for bank robbery, for example, a prior conviction for drunk driving would almost certainly be inadmissible.
The Justice Department could not cite any regulator that it had named in a prosecution related to the crisis.
But a decade later, another set of allegations was actually heeded, investigated, and resulted in a prosecution.
An earlier police investigation into threats against him resulted in a prosecution under the Malicious Communications Act in 2010.
Very few cases of domestic abuse ever get referred to police, let alone result in a prosecution.
The confession marks a new phase in a prosecution that has shaken media circles in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, where all three men are well known.
This includes communications between someone under indictment and his or her lawyer — the words can't be used in a prosecution, but can be to gather intelligence.
Typically, the cross-examination of the central witness in a prosecution is an opportunity for defense lawyers to smear the witness's credibility, ruffle the witness and be combative.
Prosecutors in Chicago have taken the same approach in a prosecution of teenager accused of plotting to blow up a bar.
