Sentence examples for prosecuting young from inspiring English sources
In the guidance for a model state statute, Section 1243 of the TVPRA of 2013 includes not charging or prosecuting young people for prostitution offenses.
At least that's the case in over half the states which have yet to change their laws prosecuting young teenagers (under the age of 18) as adults and, if convicted, sending them to adult correctional facilities.
At the same time they prosecuted young revolutionaries, including on such charges as "insulting the head of state".
Khan said there was growing anger that a government that opposes the Assad regime in Syria should prosecute young Muslims who travel there to fight it.
Currently, New York State is one of two remaining states in the US who automatically prosecute young people at 16 and 17 years of age as adults, regardless of the offense they are charged with.
I recall as a young Air Force lawyer prosecuting even younger airmen and charging them with stealing a modestly priced radio but including a much more serious charge of lying to the air policeman investigating the case, thereby trying to open the door to a bad-conduct discharge.
At the time that he learned of Crawford's case, he was prosecuting another young black man accused of killing his infant.
"Prosecuting these young women for participating in a demonstration, while security forces who killed hundreds of protesters roam free, should shock our collective conscience," said Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW's Middle East and north Africa director.
The redoubtable Jeannie Berlin plays Helen Weiss, the middle-aged New York district attorney tasked with prosecuting a young Pakistani-American college student, Riz Ahmed's Nasir Khan, for a brutal murder that he probably didn't commit.
Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy goes to the Supreme Court, determined to prosecute the young man's killer.
It was said that he prosecuted the young Shakespeare for stealing deer in Charlecote park, though the story gained currency only long after Shakespeare's death.
