Sentence examples for justified prosecution from inspiring English sources

Instead, the majority ruling that tossed out Bond's conviction specifically cited Ghane's case as an example of a justified prosecution under the law, lumping him in with white supremacists who tried to get their hands on explosives and chemical weapons, and another man who released a chlorine gas cloud in a residential neighborhood.

To my knowledge the R.T.C. and the O.I.C. never concluded that one or the other Clinton did not lie; the two offices found that they had committed no offenses that justified prosecution or taken any actions that would subject them to civil penalties.

Does that justify prosecution?

The charity Community Security Trust, which advises Jewish groups on security, said although the use of the word "Yid" by fans "does not justify prosecution", it is still offensive.

Therefore, the judges wrote in their decision that they would not, "in order to justify prosecution of a person for an offense, enlarge a statute beyond the fair meaning of its language".

The Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service also announced that two previous investigations into MI5 and MI6, concerning Binyam Mohamed and an unknown man held in Afghanistan, had not unearthed sufficient evidence to justify prosecutions.

The betting then was that the police had not found enough evidence to justify a prosecution for selling peerages.

He said: "There is insufficient evidence to justify the prosecution of any person in relation to the tragic death of Roger Sylvester".

• To the Editor: The prosecutor in the Jena Six case acts like a computer program, justifying the prosecution of black students because their conduct met the technical definition of a crime, unlike the white students' misconduct.

But Mr. Zinser said that to justify criminal prosecution, violations must be knowing and willful, and that prosecutors generally take into account the rank within the company of the people accused of violating the law.

His only role before the grand jury, in this case and all other cases, was to present enough evidence to justify a prosecution by the state -- to get the wheels of justice rolling, so to speak.