Throughout the trial, Mr. Combs's lawyers, Benjamin Brafman and Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., asserted that the superstar was innocent and the victim of a selective prosecution resulting from Mr. Combs's fame and wealth.
Until prosecution results in exposure and punishment, bankers are unlikely to change their behavior, and will keep putting the country at risk of another financial meltdown.
And finally, why, of 3,600 British citizens identified in the database downloaded by the whistleblower Hervé Falciani and passed to HMRC by the French authorities in 2010, has only one prosecution resulted?
Saying the prosecution resulted from a "one-sided, lopsided investigation," Mr. Rodriguez's chief lawyer, Jeffrey T. Schwartz, told reporters after Friday's court session that he would keep hammering away at that theme.
In addition, 92% of people who received warning notices from RSPCA inspectors chose to follow them rather than risk possible prosecution, resulting in much-improved lives for thousands of animals.
She notes that the prosecution resulted from the work of the International Contract Corruption Task Force -- uniting the FBI and Justice Department with the Department of the Army's Criminal Investigation Command and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service.
Thanks to an actual prosecution resulting in prison terms for company executives it is likely that the public will suffer fewer food-safety problems, at least for a while.
The prosecutions result in suspended sentences, fines, closings of publishing houses, but rarely jail time.
"I'd like to see this material taken seriously and investigated, and new policies, if not prosecutions, result from it".
Under the rules of the inquiry the soldiers were granted immunity from prosecutions resulting from their evidence, but they could be prosecuted for perjury.
