"The prosecution say an issue in this case was the police did not intervene in the five minutes available to them by intercepting Jean Charles de Menezes before he got on a bus at Tulse Hill.
In a 1994 decision, also from South Carolina, the United States Supreme Court had ruled that whenever the prosecution made an issue of a murder defendant's future dangerousness, the jury must be informed that life without parole meant no possibility of release.
Begin to make over-criminalization and persecutorial prosecution a political issue in its own right.
Disclosure of material by the prosecution has been an issue in the Lubanga case for years, with disputes over evidence holding up the trial's start.
It is "atypical" for an attorney general to have "near-universal use" of prosecution diversions surrounding an issue he has identified as a major threat to public order, said Chiraag Bains, a former Justice Department civil rights prosecutor now at the progressive organization Demos.
Although only a handful of Khmer Rouge leaders have been brought to trial for the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979, the lack of prosecutions is not an issue in the election.
The United Nations team, led by the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kyung-wha Kang, recommended that the United Nations Security Council refer Syria to the International Criminal Court for prosecution of alleged atrocities, an issue expected to be discussed by the council later Thursday.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Lynn Leibovitz, a former homicide prosecutor who has generally issued rulings favorable to the prosecution, issued a judgment of acquittal on a felony count of inciting a riot, ruling that no reasonable juror could have found any of the defendants guilty of that charge based on the evidence presented by the government.
Rick Perry of Texas is one of the least thoughtful and most damaging state leaders in America," thundered the New York Times; nonetheless, the indictment "appears to be the product of an overzealous prosecution".At issue is Mr Perry's response to an episode in April last year.
