Sentence examples for over a prosecution from inspiring English sources

He heard the first blasphemous libel trial for more than 50 years when, in 1977, the crown took over a prosecution initiated by Mary Whitehouse.

The Caha case involved a perjury conviction where the defendant unsuccessfully argued that the federal court had no jurisdiction over a prosecution for the crime of perjury committed in a proceeding in a land office at Kingfisher, Oklahoma regarding ownership of real estate.

The DPP has it within his power to take over a private prosecution and either run with it, as advocated by Watkin's lawyers, or discontinue it, a course which is doubtless being urgently pressed upon him by the Home Office.

An earlier report into abuse at another home was shelved after concerns over prejudicing a prosecution and insurance worries.

My father, a Palestinian professor named Sami Al-Arian, was arrested over four years ago on trumped up terrorism charges and submitted to a prosecution over the course of six months that bordered on the farcical.

Page A11 New York LEAKED ARREST FILES SPUR DISPUTE OVER PROSECUTION A dispute has erupted over the federal government's decision to prosecute at least a half-dozen illegal immigrants in New York whose status was discovered after a state agency mistakenly provided sealed arrest records to immigration authorities last year.

It was when Gov. Mario M. Cuomo appointed him to take over the prosecution of a case that still looms large in city history — the fatal Howard Beach racial attack in 1986 — that Mr. Hynes became a political star.

Carried out in secret and often without anaesthetic, FGM has been illegal since 1985 but there has never been a prosecution over it in the UK.

But a prosecution over the lyrics would be contentious, with complicating factors including arguments over free speech, varying translations of the patois Beenie Man uses and the question of who should face charges for which offences.

The trust is itself facing a prosecution over Ms Astbury's death, brought by the Health and Safety Executive, under the health and safety at work act.

JSTOR did not pursue a prosecution after Swartz turned over his files to the Department of Justice.