Sentence examples for major prosecution from inspiring English sources

The monthlong jury trial was the first major prosecution of Wall Street executives stemming from the housing collapse.

BEHIND THE NEWS The trial of Mr. Demjanjuk, 91, may be the last major prosecution of a Nazi war criminal.

Of the nine major prosecution witnesses, seven have been intimidated, by means including by death threats, said a United States Army judge advocate general who is advising Iraqi judicial officials.

The last major prosecution for apartheid-era crimes was that of Adriaan Vlok, a former minister who was given a 10-year prison suspended sentence for attempted murder after striking a plea bargain in 2007.

Lengthy delays were called when the court asked the prosecution to ask the Central Intelligence Agency to reveal blacked-out parts of its cables related to an informer, Abdul Majid Giaka, who became a major prosecution witness.

Philip Vannatter, who as a Los Angeles police detective helped lead the investigation of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L. Goldman in 1994 and who was a major prosecution witness in the failed attempt to convict O. J. Simpson of the crime, died on Friday in Santa Clarita, Calif.

In the wake of 9/11, many major prosecutions were put on hold.

The outspoken Gnaizda is the only person to say there should have been major prosecutions.

The F.B.I. had completed an investigation of the Mafia that would provide the grist for several major prosecutions.

In one of her major prosecutions, Ms. Sotomayor helped win convictions of two men in a child pornography case.

After failing to produce any major prosecutions stemming from the housing crisis, an expanded federal task force is planning a new tack, cracking down on financial firms suspected of improperly bundling home loans into securities for investors, officials said Wednesday.