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The review by Alistair Webster QC found that the legal standard for a criminal prosecution – beyond all reasonable doubt – had not been met.
They said there was insufficient evidence for a successful prosecution "beyond a reasonable doubt," but they did not cite "lack of guilt," as they did with another charge.
The case against Mrs. Fastow has never been considered by legal experts to be an important element of the Enron prosecution, beyond the incentive that it created for her husband to strike a deal with prosecutors.
The report said there was evidence to suggest Mr. Clinton may have known of two fraudulent loans in connection with the Arkansas business deals, but "that evidence was, ultimately, of insufficient weight and insufficiently corroborated to obtain and sustain a criminal prosecution beyond a reasonable doubt".
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In practice, securing prosecutions beyond all reasonable doubt for incidents like these may often be all but impossible.
But Prime Minister Hun Sen, who once said that Cambodia should "dig a hole and bury the past," has said that he would not allow any additional prosecutions beyond those four.
At least four foreign members of the legal staff have walked out in recent weeks to protest an apparent decision by top investigators not to pursue new prosecutions beyond the first two cases, which involve the conviction of a prison chief last July and the impending trial of four leaders of the movement that was responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million people from 1975 to 1979.
Furthermore, in order to procure a guilty ruling in a criminal suit like George Zimmerman's, the prosecution must prove "beyond all reasonable doubt" that the defendant is guilty.
In order for Alexandre Bissonnette to be found guilty of first-degree murder, the prosecution must prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that it was he who entered the mosque, who used the murder weapon and that it was this weapon that caused the deaths of the six people.
The "guilt phase" would determine whether the prosecution established beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the charged capital offense.
For the moment, those guilty of crimes in the Watergate case are beyond prosecution.
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