Sentence examples for prosecution in effect from inspiring English sources

His lawyer said Monday that Mr. Bulger, who was an informer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, would tell jurors that the government had given him immunity from prosecution — in effect, that he had a license to kill.

The defendants' supporters are concerned that each trial is a platform for the prosecution, in effect using the court to stack the odds against the later defendants.

Kassar mocked the prosecution, arguing, in effect, that someone of his wealth and public profile would never stoop to an operational role in such an attack.

The prosecution was in effect "telling women not to take pills that are so safe they are on the World Health Organisation's essential medicines list.

So let's talk about Paul Bremer, who single-handedly imposed many of the laws that are still on the books in Iraq, including the one giving Blackwater and other private contractors immunity from prosecution -- in effect putting them above the law.

But, as critics point out, Mr Chávez controls most of the security forces, as well as the prisons; the courts and the prosecution service are in effect branches of the executive, too.

Such was the divide between the ruling elite and the famine poor that to get Hasty and Commins convicted, the prosecution relied on (and in effect bribed) a string of shady witnesses, all of whom had initially given false evidence to the police.

At issue in the trial was the prosecution's charge that Ms. Hsia in effect masterminded the scheme.

What is more, the Defense Department (in effect, the prosecution) was not only defining the crimes worthy of trial by military tribunal but also doing so only after hundreds of suspects were already in custody and had been repeatedly interrogated.

Mr. Lefcourt said he believed Ms. Lee had not wanted to be placed in a position where a prosecutor could have asked whether she had received immunity from prosecution, which, he said, "would in effect be telling the jury that there was a crime committed".

Now that the year's "deferred prosecution" has expired, the bank is in effect in the clear.