If you'd asked me that question a few years ago, I would probably have agreed that there are no alternatives to prosecution and punishment in response to such crimes.
Earlier this year, as government prosecution efforts grew in response to the wave of corporate scandals, Cablevision officials kept a nervous eye on the case building against the Adelphia Communications Corporation, the cable giant with which it had completed a major asset and stock swap in 2001.
"While he has come under fire for a dearth of prosecutions on Wall Street in response to the crisis, Mr. Breuer also oversaw an aggressive crackdown on money laundering and interest-rate manipulation at some of the world's biggest banks.
In response to prosecution allegations that he traded arms for Sierra Leonean blood (or conflict) diamonds, Taylor testified that it would not have been possible because neither of the two roads that led to the Sierra Leone border could support vehicles laden with weapons.
The opinion of the pro-gun movement seems to be that the guy with the gun is always right, no matter what the facts of the case are; that gun possession makes you a super-citizen with enhanced rights to take life, avoid prosecution, and use lethal force in response to non-lethal force.
Monday's motion was in response to the prosecution's opposition to the defense's change-of-venue request.
In response to the prosecution's letter, Mr. Haggerty's lawyers wrote to the judge last week that they might look to examine the Bloomberg campaign's use of vendors and subcontractors.
In response to the prosecution's allegations of driver fatigue, Mr. Williams's lawyer, Patrick L. Bruno, noted that his client had worked long hours just like other professionals, including police officers, firefighters and, he pointed out in court, judges.
Kemakeza had been convicted on charges that included "demanding with menace, intimidation and larceny" in regard to authorizing militants to attack and seize vehicles owned by an Honiara law firm, and Palmer's ruling was in response to the prosecution's appeal that the original sentence was inadequate.
Back in January, Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren proposed a reform known as "Aaron's Law," named after the famed hacker Aaron Swartz who had killed himself in response to aggressive prosecution of hacktivist crimes.
