Sentence examples for law prosecutions from inspiring English sources

Under Turkish law, prosecutions for the offence can go ahead if permission is granted by the ministry.

William Yeomans, a law professor in Washington, DC and a former acting assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Justice Department, told the Guardian "color of law" prosecutions involving police shootings are harder to prove than other types of deprivation and are therefore "very rare".

In a criminal law prosecution relating to the same tsunami, Chile's National Prosecutor's office is prosecuting, for involuntary manslaughter and other less serious offences, seven public officials including Carmen Fernández, a former director of the National Emergency Agency, and Patricio Rosende, a former Under-Secretary of the Interior (Bonnefoy 2013).

Perhaps the best-known federal "color of law" prosecution was brought against the Los Angeles police officers acquitted of state criminal charges over the beating Rodney King in 1991.

According to Italian law, prosecution of a conspiracy — defined as when three or more individuals form an association to engage in criminal activity over a period of time — can carry statutes of limitations of a decade or more, depending on the severity of the crime and whether there are other related offenses.

With either law, prosecution is a last resort.

There are some relatable examples, in some high-profile cases; it took a very long time with Trayvon Martin, and that was a hate-crime investigation, not a "colour of law" prosecution.

You might well ask why we don't prosecute more landlords who break the law, but prosecutions consume considerable resources that just don't exist.

Under Russian law, posthumous prosecutions are allowed, but not with the idea of going to trial.

The ruling is also expected to call into question a law permitting prosecutions for terrorist crimes for which the statute of limitations has expired.

Stacey A. Tovino, who teaches at the Health Law and Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center and has written on midwifery and the law, said prosecutions of midwives almost always started with a tragedy.