Sentence examples for over prosecution from inspiring English sources

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.

Both figures represent sizable increases over prosecution rates for illegal re-entry in the mid-1990's.

But with both the C.I.A. captives and more important Guantánamo detainees, interrogation was given priority over prosecution, officials said.

The preference of Mr. Miller, a Democrat, for prevention over prosecution sets him apart from a newer, younger crop of attorneys general in other states.

Public frustration with murders, robberies, rapes and assaults has led to law enforcement crackdowns that emphasize arrests over prosecution, swelling prisons and jails sometimes two, three or four times beyond capacity with inmates who have typically never gone on trial, much less been convicted.

Whether the government's influence over prosecution is direct or indirect, the authority does not always act without fear or favour in politically sensitive cases, says Pierre de Vos, a constitutional-law scholar at the University of Cape Town.The judiciary will be a test of the ANC's democratic credentials.

Rashad Robinson, the executive director of Color Of Change, said Alvarez's departure promised to halt "nearly a decade of corruption and over-prosecution in our communities".

Juries are balking at the over-prosecution of patients and growers arrested in federal raids.

To charge Manning with "aiding the enemy" is a dangerous over-prosecution of his case.

No one is watching to see what legal professionals do on a daily basis -- whether there are patterns of over-prosecution, under-prosecution or bad lawyering.

"Is 14 cases a year over-prosecution to you?" Nevertheless, even Conyers indicated he might back two of the Chamber's five major proposals: one that would clarify who qualifies as a foreign official, and another to exempt companies with strong compliance programs from criminal liability.