Sentence examples for in prosecutions for from inspiring English sources

The Fifth Amendment requires grand jury indictment in prosecutions for major crimes and prohibits double jeopardy for a single offense.

Kellman said that the group wondered if the treaty's provisions might result in prosecutions for minor infractions.

The Indian supreme court recently expressed concern at the low numbers of convictions in prosecutions for sex crimes.

In the late 20th century, several European countries had special provisions in their criminal codes for lenient sentencing and the consideration of extenuating circumstances in prosecutions for euthanasia.

The trend continued in the Bush administration, except for a spike in prosecutions for Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and others for accounting fraud.

Occasionally, government lawyers would want to use what they had learned in FISA taps in prosecutions for espionage, and courts allowed it — if the "primary purpose" of the surveillance was for intelligence.

In France, the state of emergency that has mobilized 10,000 troops for more than eight months since November has resulted in 3,694 searches, only 7percentt of which have resulted in prosecution for violations of weapons or drug laws, 477 house arrests, 67 penalties, 56 detentions and only six cases brought by the terrorism prosecutor of Paris, according to the Interior Ministry.

Always remember, an improper citizen's arrest can result in prosecution for crimes like kidnapping.

UBS and Royal Bank of Scotland even had their Japanese brokerage subsidiaries enter a guilty plea in the United States, something unheard-of in bank prosecutions for years.

In Hong Kong, prosecutions for red light violations have increased in the past decade.

Or the head of a leading children's charity could say: "There is very troubling evidence that whites are overwhelmingly represented in the prosecutions for such offences".