Sentence examples for prosecution of misconduct from inspiring English sources

Few, for example, would have predicted a year ago that the city would move, as it did recently, to turn over the prosecution of misconduct cases to the Civilian Complaint Review Board, an independent panel whose efforts have long been viewed with suspicion by officers and city officials.

In court papers asking Tevrizian to order a new trial, Kaye accused the prosecution of misconduct by withholding evidence of 52 telephone calls from Gomez to the key defendant in the case over a three-week period leading up to the arrests.

He also agreed not to pursue any further legal appeals, including a claim that would have accused the prosecution team of misconduct.

"The process of decision-making is so opaque, and takes place outside of the public's view, that people don't have confidence that justice is being served," said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a watchdog group that has called for reforms in the prosecution of police misconduct.

"It's become very clear that you simply can't have local district attorneys responsible for the prosecution of police misconduct in their jurisdictions when they rely entirely on the relationship with local police to do their jobs.

Schachman worked with the National Academy of Sciences in the 1980s and '90s to clarify and limit the reach of what he considered irresponsible prosecutions of scientific misconduct, arguing that the term "misconduct" was vague and could as easily apply to inadvertent or sloppy work as actual fraud.

Public hearings had been critical to the NSW Icac's investigations of leases and mining licences that resulted in the prosecution of Eddie Obeid and Ian Macdonald for misconduct, the panel said.

Indeed, Mr Vassilev says that he has no economic ties whatsoever to Mr Barekov or Mr Peevski.Whether or not the prosecution will find evidence of misconduct, which Mr Barekov and Mr Vassilev vehemently deny, Mr Barekov's party has already established itself as a force to be reckoned with.

Campaigners want the Independent Police Complaints Commission to investigate police tactics during the entire strike and are urging the director of public prosecutions to examine evidence of misconduct.

Army regulations prohibit commanders from discharging soldiers found to have personality disorders if the action is intended "to spare a soldier who may have committed serious acts of misconduct" from prosecution by military authorities.

"There never was or has been any allegation that the police investigation or the prosecution of the defendant involved misconduct on anyone's part," Zagaya said in court.