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The government's focus so far has been on prosecution rather than reconciliation.

The judge objected strongly to several recent appeals decisions because, he said, they favored the prosecution rather than the rights of the accused.

It is a conviction rooted so deeply in church dogma that dozens of members have endured criminal prosecution rather than surrender an ailing person to what they see as the quackery of medical science.

If I decided to plead not guilty, Karen suspected that the prosecution, rather than go to trial, would eventually offer to reduce the sentence to adjournment in contemplation of dismissal (A.C.D ., essentially a six-month probation.

The F.B.I. took the lead in the Cook investigation, focusing on gathering evidence for a criminal prosecution rather than on immediately shutting down the fraud and securing investors' funds.

Each of these moves could fundamentally alter the way the legal system conceives of rights, upending notions that we all take for granted now, like the burden of proof -- which does and should lie with the prosecution, rather than with the defense -- and the presumption of innocence, rather than the proof of it.

"Certainty is a much more important aspect than severity," Mr. Simon said, arguing for more oversight and run-of-the-mill prosecutions, rather than the occasional high-profile trial.

This is an open door to atavistic tabloid editors to create a storm over any sentence they don't like, and will further press prison-junkie judges to send more inside for longer, with more pressure on the dysfunctional Crown Prosecution Service to initiate prosecutions rather than say that many add nothing to public safety.

But the RSPCA's policy of bringing private prosecutions rather than referring them to the Crown Prosecution Service was raised earlier this year in a parliamentary debate.

But evidence gathered by the Guardian now suggests it was the Crown Prosecution Service rather than the police that withheld the tapes.

He acted as lookout and the gang communicated by walkie-talkie, the prosecution said, rather than their mobile phones, which could be used to track their movements.