Sentence examples for of another prosecution from inspiring English sources

Once a crucial issue is litigated in a criminal case that issue may not be the basis of another prosecution.

He remained under suspicion and was subjected to the anxiety of the threat of another prosecution". MacDonald I, 531 F.2d, at 204 (footnote omitted).

A lawyer has criticised the "poor quality" of Queensland police intelligence on bikie gangs after the collapse of another prosecution under contentious anti-association laws.

Earlier, in the cross-examination of another prosecution witness, John Bennett, 34, a tow truck driver who happened upon Mr. Faison being arrested, defense lawyers tried unsuccessfully to dislodge him from his statement that two other officers had punched Mr. Faison as he lay on the ground before Officers Tortorella and Jackson arrived.

As students return for classes here, the case has drawn uncomfortable reminders of another prosecution in 2006, one county over in Durham, where white men who played lacrosse for Duke were accused of sexually assaulting a black woman hired to strip at a party.

And MI5, although deeply dismayed, are not intending to make the foolish mistake of attempting another prosecution.

The lives of Mrs Ocampo and another prosecution witness are said to have been threatened.

Both he and Mr. Vinegrad agreed in interviews yesterday that if the new trial had led to yet another hung jury, the government would not have mounted another prosecution of Mr. Schwarz.

And in recent weeks the all-consuming news story has been of another non-prosecution, this one of a former senior official in the health ministry accused of embezzling millions of dollars intended for AIDS drugs.

It is possible that some early neonatal deaths were recoded as stillbirths out of fear of prosecution or families' reactions.

The Double Jeopardy Clause forbids a second trial for the purpose of affording the prosecution another opportunity to supply evidence which it failed to muster in the first proceeding.