Of the handful of other successful convictions known to advocates, there appears to be a pattern of weak prosecutions, out of step with national trends.
Those acquittals followed a much broader pattern of failed prosecutions in police killings.
One of those failings is a pattern of overzealous prosecution.
But while Alan Dershowitz often takes up arms against anti-Semitism, his brother said he was inspired to join the case less over the handling of religion — "I wouldn't call it anti-Semitic," just "inappropriate," he added — than what he called a pattern of pro-prosecution bias by the judge.
Alvarez handily won her previous re-election bids, but her pattern of harsh prosecution of youth offenders -- which made Cook County among the leaders for juvenile life without parole sentences -- and low rate of prosecuting police misconduct eventually drew the ire of those hoping for progressive reform. .
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.
The pattern of abuse, the prosecution alleged, had a "sexual element," though defense lawyers denied the claims.
And this established a pattern of informal immunity from prosecution that, with few exceptions, has continued since then.
It is seen as part of a pattern of arguably unfair trials, in which thousands of prosecutions are brought under vague anti-terrorism laws.
Lawyers who take on sensitive cases or who seek redress for abuses committed by Communist Party officials are suffering a consistent pattern of abuse, including arrest and prosecution, harassment, suspension of their licenses or disbarment, and violent attacks.
