Sentence examples for prosecution based on a from inspiring English sources

Mr. Pinault was immune to prosecution, based on a previous agreement with the government.

"It's shocking to think that someone would be vulnerable to criminal prosecution based on a prior horrific event, and not on their alleged actions," she said.

Last February I interviewed a man named Timothy Crosby, who also was sent to prison following a prosecution based on a Dana Garner fantasy.

After the case had finished, I went home and mentally re-ran the trial, this time with a prosecution based on a perfect police investigation, and wondered whether our verdict would have been any different.

Critics noted a remarkable similarity between The Accused, the play in which Archer plays an actor accused of murder in one of his own plays, to the 1957 courtroom film Witness for the Prosecution, based on a short story, and later play, by Agatha Christie.

"Frankly, I feel the US Justice Department should come in, confiscate their computers, and do a thorough investigation of at least the last 10 years," said Henry Mosier, a recently retired public defender, who in 2010 threw a Kern County prosecution based on a police sting operation into chaos by uncovering that a detective buried unfavourable evidence in the desert.

Democrats, however, noted that the bill would specifically bar prosecution based on an individual's expression of "racial, religious, political or other beliefs".

(The possibility of a prosecution based on an "anything-of-value" theory has been explored in greater detail by Robert Bauer, President Obama's White House counsel, and by Rick Hasen, an election-law specialist, in several posts).

The case also invites scrutiny of police who appear to have sought prosecutions based on a standard of investigative rigour below that which they would expect of fellow officers.

The criminalization of HIV exposure/transmission and the risk of prosecution based on HIV status is a controversial structural challenge faced by many PLWH globally [ 14, 26- 28].

The question of why the US justice department is piggybacking on Landis' suit now, when a US attorney in California inexplicably nixed a prosecution based on the federal grand jury investigation into precisely the same charges of fraud is now mainly of academic interest.