The introduction states that "members of the news media will not be subject to prosecution based solely on newsgathering activities".
And Attorney General Eric Holder Jr.'s office promised on Friday that "members of the news media will not be subject to prosecution based solely on news-gathering activities".
Despite the government's public stance that their prosecution was solely focused on financial crimes, Mr. Ai later told journalists his inquisitors were uninterested in taxes.
The report repeats Obama administration promises that journalists will not be prosecuted for practicing journalism: As an initial matter, it bears emphasis that it has been and remains the Department's policy that members of the news media will not be subject to prosecution based solely on newsgathering activities.
The report offered assurances that "members of the news media will not be subject to prosecution based solely on newsgathering activities".
The United States Supreme Court has held that blacks, like other groups, cannot be systematically excluded from a jury solely because of their race, and that peremptory challenges, which require no stated explanation, can be exercised by the prosecution only "to secure a fair and impartial jury".
They maintain his case is a summary of the main problems prompting the rising national concern about fairness in capital convictions: race, mental incapacity, prosecutions based solely on confessions, appeal limitations and the inevitable pressures of politics.
Even Mr. Clinton last week acknowledged that he was disturbed by the racial composition of the death row population and the fact that "what your prosecution is may turn solely on where you committed the crime".
Then there's the anti-suicide baseball game fundraiser Carter held, seemingly on Roy's behalf, after his death a move the prosecution claims was done solely for attention, which they describe as her chief motive.
