The case is one of several new ones coming to light that suggest that the department's use of criminal prosecutions to help Republicans win elections may go farther than anyone realizes.
In his youth, Mr. Ishikawa hacked into the computer system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and to avoid prosecution, agreed to help the lab's security staff shore up its system.
Dedicated and capable United States attorneys were fired for insisting on doing their jobs with integrity — for refusing to put people in jail, or shield them from prosecution, simply to help Republicans win elections.
The challenge for the prosecution was to help the jury see that it doesn't matter whether Constand and Cosby talked a lot, or whether Cosby gave her perfume and sweaters, if the facts are that, on the night in question, he drugged her with the intention to incapacitate her and initiate sex.
There is by now strong reason to believe that they were involved in plans to fire United States attorneys for political reasons, fill other important positions on the basis of partisanship rather than competence and order prosecutions designed to help Republicans win elections.
Britain's highest court will be asked to clarify the law on assisted suicide today when Debbie Purdy, who was diagnosed with progressive multiple sclerosis 14 years ago, demands a legal ruling on whether her husband would face prosecution were he to help her take her own life.
Prosecutions were launched to help Republican candidates win elections.
An amnesty that would allow PKK fighters to return home without risking prosecution would do much to help.
Prejean was the final witness for the defence in the penalty phase of the trial, in which, having found Tsarnaev guilty on the 17 capital counts, the jury heard new evidence from the prosecution and defence designed to help them weigh "aggravating factors" against "mitigating factors" in deciding whether to put Tsarnaev to death for his crimes.
"You wanted to be helpful because you wanted to help the prosecution arrest George Zimmerman, Donn West, one of Mr. Zimmerman's lawyers, asked Ms. Jeantel.
