Sentence examples for prosecution to collapse from inspiring English sources
They were arrested by armed police and spent months in jail before appearing in court only for the prosecution to collapse because that key collaborator, Florim Gashi, admitted to being paid £10,000 by the News of the World.
Now, the arrest of four narcotics officers in Brooklyn has given the Police Department a black eye, and Chief Reznick, a veteran whose name pops up in all manner of big cases, and who began his career on a foot patrol in Washington Heights, has been brought in to clean up a scandal that has caused 80 drug prosecutions to collapse.
When Mr. Ishaq was arrested in 1997, he unleashed his broad network against his opponents, killing witnesses, threatening judges and intimidating the police, leading nearly all of the prosecutions against him to collapse eventually.
Jendayi Frazer, America's top Africa official until 2009, summed up what many observers were thinking when she said that the "case against him is close to collapse".The prosecution sounds more hopeful that it will nail William Ruto, his running mate, for allegedly stirring up the Kalenjin after the same election.
Europe is going to collapse.
Everything's going to collapse.
HCA left legal prosecution to authorities.
But an attempt to bring a prosecution collapsed last autumn because of a much-criticised Scottish law that demands a second witness to corroborate crimes, even those committed in private.
If her blood was inside the silencer it supported the prosecution's position, but if the blood belonged to someone else, that part of the prosecution case collapsed.
All 95 were acquitted after the prosecution case collapsed following revelations in court that police officers' statements had been dictated to them in order to establish evidence of a riot, and one officer's signature on a statement had been forged.
