Sentence examples for prosecution for years from inspiring English sources

Why is Polanski different from Alex Kelly, the Darien rapist who dodged prosecution for years by hanging out in Europe?

Mr. Rudolph escaped into the North Carolina mountains and remains at large, another suspect who has avoided prosecution for years.

The defendant, Heinrich Boere, was able to evade prosecution for years, first by fleeing the Netherlands and then because German courts ruled he could not be extradited.

"He has escaped prosecution for years," said Marcello Zanardo, an analyst with Keefe Bruyette & Woods.

The deal allowed Exide and its employees to avoid prosecution for years of environmental crimes, including illegal storage, disposal and shipment of hazardous waste, while agreeing to pay $50 million to demolish and clean the plant and surrounding communities, including $9 million set aside for removing lead from homes.

UBS and Royal Bank of Scotland even had their Japanese brokerage subsidiaries enter a guilty plea in the United States, something unheard-of in bank prosecutions for years.

She hasn't consistently seen so many petty immigration prosecutions for years.

The government would have then agreed to postpone any prosecution for several years, effectively putting Andersen on probation.

Ball had been permitted to resign and escape prosecution for 22 years after the complaints against him were first made.

In federal court yesterday, prosecutors filed their agreement to defer prosecution for three years and then dismiss the case if he cooperates fully.

After escaping prosecution for 38 years, two men were indicted last May for their involvement in the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., which killed four young black girls and galvanized sympathy for the civil rights cause.