Sentence examples for prosecuted for something from inspiring English sources

"People shouldn't be prosecuted for something they have no control over".

Also: yes, Gingrich is a quick-witted debater, but is he a pure demagogue for saying that Dodd and Frank should be criminally prosecuted for something or the other?

After all, they receive classified or leaked material all the time, and if their sources could potentially be prosecuted for something akin to treason, it could greatly chill the flow of information.

Trying to get Comey to acknowledge that this was short of a direct order, Risch asked if Comey knew of anyone who had ever been prosecuted "for hoping something".

The warden of the prison attempted to have English prosecuted for bringing something into the prison he did not take out: unexposed film.

It would have to be fairly serious for a club to be prosecuted for fans singing something and probably would have to be a criminal-type scenario or grossly offensive for that to be done.

And these are just a few of the rights and obligations afforded to these "metaphorical persons," as Yale Law School professor John Witt put it on NPR, explaining that "a corporation can be prosecuted for a crime, which is something that usually only persons can be prosecuted for.

Rather than try Kassar for a crime he'd committed in the past, they would use the strong conspiracy laws in the United States to prosecute him for something that he intended to do in the future.

If the police violated your rights you can file a motion to suppress, to be sure, but if the government decided to prosecute you for something that they shouldn't, likely your only move is to convince a jury to say you aren't guilty.

He went on to say: "What's most frustrating is that we were protesting against tax avoidance at a time when schools and hospitals desperately need money, and the state has just spent hundreds of thousands of pounds trying to prosecute us for something that would have been instantly disregarded if the people in charge had watched the CCTV footage".

"Given the thin case against him, it is an outrage that he is being extradited to the US to face felony charges for something that he is not being prosecuted for here.