Sentence examples for prosecution itself from inspiring English sources
Some of the investigative techniques that became public during trial were such an outrage and an embarrassment that the prosecution itself had to attack them.
In a dissent in the case, Justice Antonin Scalia said that "until today" lawyers were required to give advice only about the criminal prosecution itself and not about other consequences of conviction like deportation.
Also among the signatories of Wales's petition was Graham Linehan, writer of the sitcoms The IT Crowd, Black Books and Father Ted, who said the prosecution itself – not just the potential extradition – was a cause for alarm.
But this one was unusual first because it involved the DPP, Alison Saunders, herself, and second because the decisive issue was not a question of the strength of the evidence but whether prosecution itself was in the public interest.
The prosecution itself is, in a way, the punishment, and through the rest of the movie, its director, Chaitanya Tamhane, a twenty-eight-year-old first-time filmmaker, lays bare some of the deep dysfunctions of the Indian judiciary, beginning with the ponderousness of Indian trials.
PARIS -- The Swiss government said Wednesday that it would reopen talks with the United States to try to salvage a settlement under which the giant bank UBS was obliged to hand over data on thousands of clients suspected of tax evasion in return for escaping prosecution itself.
The Crown Prosecution Service itself publishes guides to offences like assault.
The "prosecution team itself" disagreed, preferring that the decision be left to a court, he added.
A judge in a civilian court might at least have saved the prosecution from itself (morally speaking, if not in terms of getting a conviction at any price).
Julian Hayes, solicitor for Sidali Feddag, one of those acquitted, said the prosecution had itself described Mr Meguerba as unreliable in legal argument when the jury was not present.
The court wrote, too, that the actions of the Nassau County district attorney's office were "troubling" because instead of acting to "neutralize the moral panic, the prosecution allowed itself to get swept up in it" as well.
