Sentence examples for indefinite prosecution from inspiring English sources

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California's new law, which follows in the footsteps of 17 other states, allows for the indefinite prosecution of rape, sodomy, and lewd or lascivious acts by anyone, at any age, at anytime.

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Last October, senior Obama officials anonymously unveiled to the Washington Post their newly minted "disposition matrix", a complex computer system that will be used to determine how a terrorist suspect will be "disposed of": indefinite detention, prosecution in a real court, assassination-by-CIA-drones, etc.

With more than 100 inmates refusing food, four senior UN human rights experts and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights called for an end to the indefinite detention of Guantánamo's inmates and for their prosecution, transfer or immediate release.

President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa on Saturday ordered Mr. Selebi to take an indefinite leave of absence in view of his possible prosecution on charges of taking money from a businessman accused of murder.

"Almost all the evidence that they're collecting won't be available for prosecution," Rapp told me, because the U.N. promised witnesses indefinite confidentiality, and trials are public.

Third, and the most problematic, is the group of 50 or so (plus any of the 30 who do not clearly warrant prosecution in federal court) that fall in between: the indefinite detainees".

Perhaps the Sixth Amendment guarantee of counsel "in all criminal prosecutions" can be reasoned away as inapplicable to indefinite detention without charge, though I think the framers would have been astonished at the invention of a severe penalty for a suspect with fewer rights than he would have as a criminal defendant.

Obama escalated the war in Afghanistan, endorsed indefinite detention without charge or trial for prisoners at Guantánamo, and shielded Bush administration officials and lawyers from calls for their prosecution for turning America into a nation with secret prisons, an extraordinary rendition program, and a detention policy for terror suspects based on the use of torture.

Indefinite run.

Indefinite detention.

Belgium's is indefinite.

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