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In the end, no prosecution was undertaken.
No prosecution was undertaken, however.
If it had been, if a definite prosecution were undertaken, we would have that narrowed context in which to relate the State's demand for exposure.
because it also threatens others not before the court -- those who desire to engage in legally protected expression but who may refrain from doing so rather than risk prosecution or undertake to have the law declared partially invalid.
It should first be emphasized that the issue here is plainly not whether lawyers may 'enjoy first-class citizenship.' Nor is the issue whether lawyers may be deprived of their federal privilege against self-incrimination, whether or not criminal prosecution is undertaken against them.
The National Council for Child Welfare – which is supervising the care of the children – has confirmed that should any prosecution be undertaken in this case, it would follow child-friendly procedures established under Sudan's 2004 Child Act; including the handling of cases in juvenile courts and provision of independent legal representation for any children charged.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said that the allegations made to Surrey Police between 2007 and 2009 could have resulted in prosecutions being undertaken.
Last month, a federal jury in Minneapolis convicted several members of the Native Mob, a violent gang, of racketeering and other crimes as part of one of the largest gang prosecutions ever undertaken in Indian Country.
The fact that investigations and sometimes prosecutions were undertaken of those who violated the legal standards, in his view, can be adduced as evidence for the lawfulness of the approved techniques and a general commitment to the rule of law on the part of the Bush Administration.
At a meeting attended by the commander of Special Branch in Manchester, a GMP assistant chief constable and a "senior officer" from the Royal Ulster Constabulary, it was decided, for reasons never made public, not to present the findings of the investigation to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS); the body responsible for undertaking criminal prosecutions in England.
