Do these prosecutions form part of a pattern?
The penalty for violations is up to $4,400, with the potential for criminal prosecution for a pattern of uncorrected offenses.
The penalty for violations is up to 30,000 yuan, or about $4,400, with the potential for criminal prosecution for a pattern of uncorrected offenses.
Many explanations have been advanced for the disparity, he said, including the possibility of different patterns of charging by police or the crown prosecution service, different patterns in remand decisions, 'over-policing' of ethnic groups or social deprivation.
As protests and retaliatory action by authorities stretch on, Foro Penal has observed two "alarming new patterns": prosecution before military courts and judges' efforts to "keep demonstrators under detention, even in the face of the prosecution requesting their immediate liberation and filing no charges".
Today marks the beginning of what is expected to be an important new phase of the trial, after the judge recently permitted evidence to be submitted which the prosecution claims shows a pattern of improper behaviour with young boys.
Each side described a case built by witnesses with tainted histories, but the prosecution argued that a pattern appeared of witnesses who claimed that when they went to Graham for coaching, he told them there was only one way to succeed: using banned drugs supplied by Ángel Guillermo Herédia, 33, a onetime Mexican discus thrower who lives in Laredo, Tex.
That appears to have voided a deal which allowed its bankers escaped prosecution for a persistent pattern of violating international sanctions and laundering money for the Mexican drug cartels.
The pattern of prosecutions, convictions and harsh and exemplary sentences points towards a policy of criminalising dissent.
One of those failings is a pattern of overzealous prosecution.
