Sentence examples for prosecution moving from inspiring English sources

Generally, federal prosecutors do not intervene immediately in cases where there is already a prosecution moving forward by state authorities, but the extensive national significance and concerns of community distrust appear to have been an issue with the killing of Mr. Brown.

But yesterday the prosecution moved on to the offensive.

By Russian standards of justice, the prosecution moved swiftly, racing against a deadline of July 1, when a new criminal code will prohibit trials in absentia.

The prosecution moved, successfully, to have the defendant's original statement admitted in order to impeach his friend's testimony, and this exception to the exclusionary rule was upheld by the Illinois Supreme Court.

The BBC's Milton Nkosi says it is as if tectonic plates are shifting at the trial as the prosecution moved towards getting permission from the judge for Mr Pistorius to be mentally assessed.

Following the mistrial in Boston, the prosecution moved to schedule a new trial.

They got threatened with prosecution, moved somewhere else, got threatened with prosecution again.

Cooke said that with the increasing use of DNA evidence to solve assault and rape cases, the legislation could open the doors to more prosecutions moving forward.

Outcomes like this seem almost guaranteed if a fledgling process of parallel prosecutions moves forward, as promised, in the land of the victims and in the land of the victimizers in response to last year's destructive rampage in East Timor.

"They would like to see the criminal prosecution move a little more swiftly.

"My opinion is," she said, "if the death of 3,000 people isn't sufficient for a death penalty in this country, then why do we even have the death penalty?" Lawyers said a prosecution move to seek the death penalty in six cases that will draw worldwide attention was risky.