Sentence examples for prosecution delay from inspiring English sources
He attacked the "substantial and unjustified prosecution delay" and said Mr. Bryant was following procedure by not entering a plea until "substantial completion of the pretrial hearings".
Examining the basis of a prosecution delays the criminal proceeding, threatens to chill law enforcement by subjecting the prosecutors motives and decisionmaking to outside inquiry, and may undermine prosecutorial effectiveness by revealing the Governments enforcement policy.
According to Radio Free Asia and Chinese Human Rights Defenders, the prosecution delayed the trial because a crowd of Chen supporters gathered outside the courthouse.
In his order, Orleans parish judge Arthur Hunter Jr ruled the inmates be released and their prosecutions delayed, saying the lack of funding for their defense is a violation of the inmates' sixth amendment rights and of the 14th amendment due process clause.
Does he know that step?" said Andrew Wheat of Texans for Public Justice, the watchdog group that helped fuel the prosecution of DeLay.
Among the results, according to the cables, is that criminals are not prosecuted or prosecutions are delayed.
Thus, it may be that an accused makes out a prima facie case of denial of speedy trial by showing that his prosecution was delayed beyond the point at which a probability of prejudice arose and that he was not responsible for the delay, and by alleging that the government might reasonably have avoided it.
The ordinary rule is that only the prosecution's delays count against the government.
James cited the high costs of prosecution and delays that prosecutions cause in securing back pay for affected workers as deterrents to bringing criminal cases.
The state prosecution was delayed while the federal case, brought by the office of the United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Loretta E. Lynch, went forward.
Now he has managed to avoid paying anything towards a £1.5m confiscation order because the Crown Prosecution Service delayed enforcing it for 11 years.
