Sentence examples for prosecution thus from inspiring English sources

He accused the Manhattan district attorney's office of acting as a tool of the Justice Department, saying the new prosecution thus violated the double jeopardy clause.

One administration official described the plan for dealing with Guantánamo as having increasingly large transfers of less dangerous prisoners to their home governments for possible prosecution, thus winnowing down the population to a hard-core group.

This told the story of the only prosecution thus far for Kennedy's assassination, the unsuccessful case brought in 1967 by the New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison (played by Kevin Costner) against a local businessman, Clay Shaw.

The prosecution thus has to prove both that Mr Taylor bears responsibility for the actions of a third party (always a difficult task), and to show that he was arming the rebels so as to terrorise the Sierra Leonean population and to gain control of the country's diamonds.That the RUF committed horrendous acts of cruelty amounting to crimes against humanity is not in doubt.

(In addition, the celebrated case of John Peter Zenger [1735] had already established for Americans the principle that truth was a defense in seditious libel prosecutions, thus going beyond Blackstone's position in still another respect).

The prosecution case thus rests on the notion that Dow Chemical (unlike Corning) was involved with the product.

"For the sake of seeking the death penalty in a few more federal cases," Judge Gleeson wrote, "significant numbers of murderers and other criminals can elude investigation and prosecution, and thus remain at large, free to commit further crimes".

The government is seeking a death-qualified jury, Mr. Tigar said, because it is far more likely to be favorable to the prosecution and thus amenable to the government's conspiracy case.

It is also at least theoretically possible, he added, that the government will try to use information gathered from the program in an ordinary criminal prosecution and thus perhaps allow an argument "for a claim of standing on the part of the attorney" for the defendant.

CBP also has the power to decide if that parent or custodian should be "referred for criminal prosecution" and thus separated from their child.

His attorney hopes that if the feds now come after the club owner, he can argue that it was a selective prosecution and thus unconstitutional.