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He quotes from Humphreys's own autobiography, Both Sides of the Circle, in which the barrister expresses his preference for prosecuting on the grounds that "witnesses called by the prosecution are generally telling the truth as best they may and the prisoner is generally guilty".

(Cuomo, out of both temperament and ambition, seems to have modelled his approach to state prosecuting on Spitzer's).

So, too, was L. Dennis Kozlowski, Tyco International's former chief executive, whom the Manhattan district attorney's office is prosecuting on fraud charges.

The court's delays in setting a trial date, and the shifting accusations against the defendants, suggested that some officials might be uneasy about prosecuting on the assembly charge, he said.

We are the people who contribute hugely to the wealth of our nation, and we have a government intent on prosecuting, on nothing other than class prejudice, our organisation.

Speaking at court on Tuesday, David Hercock, prosecuting on behalf of Harrogate district council, said: "By the time a night-shift nurse realised [Barritt] was in trouble at 7.50pm, [Barritt] felt ice cold, she wasn't breathing and her temperature was so low it couldn't register on a standard thermometer.

"Sometimes there are cases which we feel they shouldn't have prosecuted on," he said.

A run-of-the-mill misdemeanor case of nonconsensual sexual touching is routinely prosecuted on far less than a recording in which the accused admits to the conduct.

Mr Coulson was one of seven individuals prosecuted on various charges in the wake of the hacking story.

The lawyer, Peter Ginsberg, however, contends Irvin was arrested on one charge and is being prosecuted on another.

Three have been rearrested — two on minor drug charges, one for shoplifting — and were prosecuted on the original charges.