Carlos Tapia, a security specialist, says military chiefs are angling for protection from prosecution on matters relating to torture and other atrocities in the fight against terrorism and, more unusually, to offences in the fight against drug-trafficking.The influence of the old guard is not limited to the barracks.
All applications by the prosecution, no matter how unreasonable, were granted.
That means any enterprise that handles pot faces the threat of closure or prosecution, no matter what state laws say.
The taxpayers did not need to spend millions of dollars on that multi-year prosecution that mattered to few of us.
Think about it: If you're young enough to dodge prison, you've got no reason to start squealing about cartel affairs in a bid to escape jail time – they're like pre-pubescent, murderous diplomats, immune to prosecution no matter how terrible the crime might be. .
She was discussing the overzealous prosecution of trivial matters or, in the accounting context, prosecuting the exercise of business judgments over which experts can differ.
The Telecommunication Act of 1996 essentially grants online services immunity from prosecution over such matters, but some lawyers believe that may be changing.
Over the coming months, roughly 100 lawyers and staff led by Ropes & Gray partner Joseph Guiliano will leave Ropes & Gray to establish a new spin-off firm specializing in patent prosecution and related matters.
Criminal prosecution in such matters is controlled by the Department of Justice and its United States Attorney's Offices and can result in five years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.
