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He came to prominence by representing members of the insurgent group that spearheaded the Algerian uprising in the 1950s and '60s (the woman he married faced the death sentence for terrorism), making use of a legal defense known as the "rupture strategy" in which he accused the prosecution of the same offenses as the defendants.
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We would be appalled if persons who were rich and famous avoided prosecution or received lenient treatment because of their status, but we seem content to accept selective prosecution for the same reasons.
Kevin Marino, Mr. Aleynikov's lawyer, plans to challenge the latest prosecution as a violation of the protection afforded defendants against double jeopardy, which prohibits a second prosecution for the same offense.
Federal law, he said, permits a new prosecution arising out of the same circumstances if an element of the crime that prosecutors must prove would be different.
The prosecution used much of the same evidence and called many of the same witnesses, but the case lacked some of the key elements that had contributed to McVeigh's conviction, such as a strong antigovernment motive and significant physical evidence.
The MEJA allows for prosecutions of these same contractors, but allows them to proceed through civilian prosecuting authorities in civilian courts with all of the normal constitutional protections.
One of those currently under prosecution is the same lady who is rumored to be the cause of the abrupt end of Serdyukov's ministerial career.
After two trials in which the prosecution presented different accounts of the same killing, a jury today convicted 13-year-old Alex King and 14-year-old Derek King of murdering their sleeping father in November and setting their house on fire to cover up their actions.
(In comparison, 77percentt of drug trafficking cases were accepted for prosecution during the same time period).
"It's time to hold the employees of prosecution offices to the same standards".
If he felt unable to ask his own people, he might have turned instead to the widely-reported statement by the director of public prosecutions, in the same month, that there had been so many potential offences that the prosecution had to limit the number of charges to prevent the case becoming "unmanageable".
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