Sentence examples for prosecution to explain from inspiring English sources

The Supreme Court's answer in Batson was to allow a defendant to force the prosecution to explain a strike if it seems to be racially motivated.

In her 11th day in the witness box, Brooks was challenged by the prosecution to explain a series of emails, written between 2004 and 2009, when she was editing the Sun, in which a journalist asked her to authorise the payments for his "number one military contact" and his "ace military contact".

The Knox family said in a statement that the prosecution had "failed to explain why there is no evidence of Amanda in the room where Meredith was so horribly and tragically murdered".

"The question is whether the prosecution will be able to explain that to a jury". The prosecution's theory is that the murders occurred about 10 15 or 10 20 p.m., when Nicole Simpson's Akita started wailing plaintively, according to seven witnesses.

He added that "the prosecution has the burden to explain what happened" and that "obviously, the senator could explain, but we don't have to do anyone's work for them".

But this week, as Mr. Hamdan's war crimes trial opened to inaugurate the military commission system at the United States naval base here, the prosecution had its chance to explain what driving Mr. bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, meant.

And it's very obvious to me in terms of some of the irritation I've expressed… not only my concern over the delay in this case… [but also the prosecution's] inability to explain … the delay in this case… I think that somebody somewhere in the U.S. government has to say… that the American public deserves better than this".

While neither the prosecution nor the defendant need to explain their reasons for a challenge, not every challenge is permissible.

It may be that there was a good reason for the three-year delay, but the Crown Prosecution Service should be required to explain it.

But the Kremlin's treatment of Mr. Khodorkovsky did not reach the level needed to prove political persecution, the judges said, as the charges filed against him were sufficient to explain his prosecution.

"I anticipate the prosecution introducing testimony and witnesses to explain the practice, the common practice, of van drivers giving prisoners being transported the 'rough ride' or the ride that's likely to expose them to serious physical injury or in this case death," said University of Maryland law professor Douglas Colbert.