Sentence examples for prosecution there is from inspiring English sources

If the order was lifted, warned Mark Ellison QC, for the prosecution, "there is a serious possibility the crown may not proceed in this case".

AMONG the underpaid and overworked lawyers who make their careers in public prosecution, there is one job that can make a lifetime of slog worthwhile: US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

While there is an exception to this principle in the First Amendment overbreadth context because of our concern that people may refrain from speech out of fear of prosecution, there is no similar justification for establishment clause cases.

How well I remember angry calls from other clients -- like Henry Fonda and Richard Burton, Sylvia Sidney and Myrna Loy: "How come you were able to get Tony Randall on Nixon's 'enemies list' and not me?" If President Bush wants to avoid being investigated and bring a final end to the Iran-contra prosecution, there is one more person he will have to pardon -- himself.

Although this is technically an open question because the courts have never directly ruled on whether a sitting president can be subject to criminal prosecution, there is historical and scholarly consensus on the side of immunity.

This last plea is slightly bizarre, actually, because while Khodorkovsky is surely a victim of selective prosecution, there is also little doubt that he is guilty of the crimes of which he's convicted and, likely, far worse, all in order to enrich himself beyond imagination and not for any larger public purpose.

Now, as these terrorists face prosecution, there are a lot of intelligence methods that need to be protected, and the military commission process is probably the better process.

Virginia prosecutors argued that a prosecution there was more likely to result in the death penalty than one in the Maryland or federal courts.

Although most of the people at the courthouse on Monday seemed to support the prosecution, there was at least one prominent person backing the detectives.

According to prosecution, there were about a dozen "injured parties," most of them security guards who happened to be on duty in the cathedral during the seconds that the "blasphemous act" lasted, plus a sacristan and a candle-keeper.

Agatha Christie, you might say, lives on, except she did trial drama better in Witness for the Prosecution: there was even an American 1920s play, Trial of Mary Dugan, with alternative endings depending on how a selected audience jury voted.