If a 21st-century prosecution service is to be delivered, the electronic file needs to be its main currency.
In her book Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York, Donna Dennis recommended Free Speech, "The People's Darling Privilege", "for evidence of commitment to freedom of speech and freedom of press among abolitionists".
My first witness for the prosecution is The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar, published last year and out in paperback now.
That was in 1998, and like Oscar Wilde's prosecution in England a century earlier, it burned its way into the gay consciousness as a symbol of the unfathomable depths of hatred we could be subjected to.
In the "trial of the century," the prosecution rested, the defense rested, the jury can rest now that they're dismissed.
One of his first efforts was a solid argument for freedom of discussion in a series of letters to the Chronicle on the prosecution of Richard Carlile, a 19th-century English radical and freethinker.
With that much live footage of the so-called "trial of the century" – from the prosecution's disastrous bid to have Simpson try on the gloves worn during the double murder to cross-examination focused more on LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman's history of calling black people niggers than the crime scene's DNA evidence – it seems there's nothing left to say.
Diplomats have had immunity from prosecution in their host country for centuries - meaning they cannot be arrested or prosecuted for any offences they commit, from minor parking violations to serious crimes of violence.
He noted that a tribe's sovereignty has allowed prosecution of non-member Indians for centuries, until it was limited by Congress.
The works were allegedly stolen, in the nineteenth century, prompting not legal prosecution but relief.
The moment was extraordinary, excruciating, freighted with suspense, a coda to the epic saga of the first successful federal death penalty prosecution in New York in half a century.
