Sentence examples for prosecution risks from inspiring English sources

She's a serial kleptomaniac who insinuates herself into businesses as a bookkeeper, gains access to their safes, and makes off with stacks of cash; Mark, in attempting to shield Marnie from prosecution, risks arrest as an accomplice.

Bruce Sanford, a First Amendment lawyer at Baker & Hostetler in Washington D.C., said in taking six months to build a case, "the prosecution risked precisely this kind of strangeness from jurors".

Carol Van Strum Tidewater, Ore .Patrick Radden Keefe's account of the London Met's police unit of "super-recognizers" is fascinating, but the use of their identifications in investigations or in prosecutions risks misidentification and wrongful conviction ("Total Recall," August 22nd).

In his Wall Street Journal article, he wrote that terrorism prosecutions "risk disclosure to our enemies of methods and sources of intelligence that can then be neutralized".

And filing the civil case does not put the prosecution at risk that SAC might try to use the tools for civil discovery to gather evidence that would not otherwise be available in the criminal case.

Dilate the cervix sufficiently and risk prosecution, or dilate less and risk the woman's health?

If one attends a woman in labour she risks prosecution.

Because this material is on its computer, the firm risks prosecution.

If he complains, he risks prosecution or, more likely, being asked for another bribe by the police.

Both the defense and the prosecution faced big risks if they lost at trial, legal experts said, and this may have led them to reach a settlement.

Under the common law of confidence, a court can require him to keep quiet; by speaking out, he risks prosecution under the Official Secrets Act.