Instead of prosecution, HSBC agreed to pay a record $1.92bn fine.
Where restorative justice can be used instead of prosecution, outcomes are particularly good.
Instead of prosecution, it faces administrative "punishments", ranging from prohibitions to written admonitions through to the stiffest punishment – a Crown Censure – described as the equivalent of a manslaughter prosecution although nobody is jailed or fined.
An Iraq war veteran accused of scaling a fence and making it into the White House before the secret service stopped him posed no threat to anyone and needs counseling instead of prosecution, members of his family said on Sunday.
Instead of prosecution, Mandela chose reconciliation; instead of a new system of apartheid, he chose national unity.
According to the Miami New Times, Herrera was arrested in 2010 for burglary as well, but she received court-supervised treatment instead of prosecution.
South Africa, for example, opted for a commission of truth and reconciliation instead of widespread prosecutions when it shed apartheid.
Instead of the prosecution doing what's right by freeing me, or immediately consenting to a new trial for me, my case prosecutor is now fighting me, saying that I should have known about this evidence due to the fact he had an open-file policy with my trial attorney.
Instead, the absence of prosecutions effectively validates ongoing criminal misbehavior throughout the financial sector.
