What flows from Kabul, the experts say, is permission for unfettered extraction, protection in case of prosecution and punishment in case the official opposes the system or gets out of line.
In exchange for providing the Bush administration with pseudoscientific license to torture, Mitchell and Jessen were paid over $1 million each, and given a $5 million indemnity agreement to cover legal costs in case of prosecution.
But India still needs to produce a "memorandum of law" to spell out how India's existing liability law (from 2010) does not expose investors to unreasonable risk of prosecution in case of an accident.
Former Senator John Edwards faces a fourth day of uncertainty as the jury continues to deliberate in the case of his prosecution for campaign finance fraud.
However, after thorough exploratory analyses considering both the number and the type of legal exemptions for the criminal prosecution of abortion, only the exemption of prosecution of abortion in cases of genetic or congenital fetal malformations in their criminal codes was found to provide clear differences in mortality outcomes.
Along with other powers, the A.F.S.P.A. grants legal immunity to soldiers, thereby protecting them from prosecution in cases of murder and rape.
Yet college authorities routinely let college-boy rapists go without expulsion or suspension, let alone criminal prosecution, even in cases of repeat offenders.
This would not be necessary to secure a conviction - but in cases of this nature the court typically hears prosecution and defence evidence relating to the source of weaponry.
The testimony appeared to bolster the case of the prosecution in a tumultuous six-month trial that has been plagued by assassinations, courtroom outbursts and political infighting, and that is still widely seen as illegitimate by international observers and human rights advocates.
In the case of Andrea Yates, the prosecution focused narrowly on the question of what she knew at the time of the killings.
and Ron Paul (R-Texas), state-licensed medical marijuana users would be given the right to provide an "affirmative defense" in the case of a federal prosecution.
