As appointees of the crown, English judges often were partial to the prosecution, but they had no power to initiate cases or gather evidence.
Having endured the paranoid harangue of a "law guardian" whom she suspects of being partial to the prosecution, Ms. Malcolm picks up the phone and calls the defense attorney: "Then I did something I have never done before as a journalist.
(Cartwright made partial restitution, testified for the prosecution, and was not charged).
"In the past the prosecution has fed partial information to tabloids that politically oppose me," Assange said.
"The National Archives and the Crown Prosecution Service hold partial records of witness evidence given in the trial but a full transcript of proceedings may never have been created.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court's majority, asserted that prosecution for accidental partial births won't occur; there has to be "intent" for there to be a crime.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics, after studying partial data on state-court felony prosecutions nationwide, found that from 1986 to 2006 the ratio of pleas to trials nearly doubled.
Toobin said that the prosecution could theoretically accept a partial verdict and then retry Edwards on the other counts, but that this would be a "cumbersome, expensive... some would say unfair" way to go about things.
That partial coverage has resulted in many of the ICC's prosecutions being concentrated in Africa – triggering resentment among many states, among them South Africa, which allege it is biased against the continent.
While some legal experts cautioned against drawing conclusions from partial evidence, others said that the DNA evidence described in the transcript might irretrievably damage the prosecution's case.
