Sentence examples for prosecution and only from inspiring English sources

And out of more than 76,000 firearms purchases denied by the federal instant check system, only 62 were referred for prosecution and only 44 were actually prosecuted.

However, his resolve is beaten down by the inevitability of prosecution, and only at the nightmarish end (which I do not want to ruin by describing) does the reader truly understand the extent to which K. has contributed to his own destruction by his compliance with the officials.

Colonial anti-sodomy laws did exist, Kennedy wrote in Lawrence, but they applied to everyone, not just to men; also, they were hardly ever enforced and "it was not until the 1970's that any State singled out same-sex relations for criminal prosecution, and only nine States have done so".

Of those, a mere 179 prompted prosecutions, and only 79 convictions were secured.

Mr. García was eventually forced into an eight-year exile to flee prosecution, and returned only two months ago.

It was not just the criminal prosecution files that fell within the scope of Brady, but also administrative files, like the police misconduct ones, which may not be connected to any criminal prosecution and which only the police department would have been privy to.

Oral hearings are rare, but Assange's lawyers said it would be wrong for the judge to deny their request because documents regarding an "important piece of evidence" – text messages sent by the plaintiffs in August 2010 – are being withheld by the prosecution and can only be read out to the judge in open court.

Members of Congress have immunity from normal prosecution and can only be tried by the Supreme Court; this is one of the unfortunate structural reasons why a majority of legislators are under investigation for a range of crimes).

A sitting president is almost certainly immune from criminal prosecution, and the only mechanisms to remove him from office — impeachment, the 25th Amendment, or voting him out the old-fashioned way — are political, not legal, procedures.

There are speeches for the prosecution and defence, but the only witness is the book itself - and she plays the book.

Spanish law does not allow prosecution in absentia, and only one of the 13 accused, 7 from FARC and 6 from ETA, is in Spanish custody.