Sentence examples for prosecution unsuccessfully from inspiring English sources

The prosecution unsuccessfully argued in its report that it had not relied on those statements and had gathered enough evidence to charge the guards from other sources.

In legal argument during the trial, which can only now be reported, the prosecution unsuccessfully argued that the jury should know about the texts because they shed light on the guards' state of mind.

The prosecution unsuccessfully argued that because a change of venue had already been granted, the place of the murder was immaterial.

It was the first time in over 10 years that a corporation had unsuccessfully defended a prosecution brought by the ACCC for an alleged contravention of Section 46.

He refused to send a lawyer to Monday's hearing, refused to enter pleas, demanded more time to prepare for trial and — unsuccessfully — claimed immunity from prosecution, asserting that he had cut a deal with the former United States peace envoy, Richard Holbrooke, in 1996.

After the government rested its case, Andersen moved unsuccessfully for an acquittal, contending that the prosecution had failed to prove its case.

Mr Bossi's lawyer, Matteo Briganti, argued unsuccessfully that his client should be immune from prosecution as an MEP and that notification of the case had been sent to the wrong address.

Nick Cartwright, an academic lawyer, thinks the legal status of the guidelines may be tested, perhaps under human-rights legislation.The text is the latest chapter of a legal battle that started in 2001, when Diane Pretty, suffering from motor-neurone disease, asked unsuccessfully for her husband to be immune from prosecution should he help her to die.

(While she was being prosecuted in absentia in Italy in 2009, De Sousa unsuccessfully sued Clinton's State Department to force it to invoke diplomatic immunity for her and end the prosecution).

The service's big artillery piece — Lacey Act felony prosecution — would likely be ineffective against a company that attempts, however unsuccessfully, to delete illegal items.

The Caha case involved a perjury conviction where the defendant unsuccessfully argued that the federal court had no jurisdiction over a prosecution for the crime of perjury committed in a proceeding in a land office at Kingfisher, Oklahoma regarding ownership of real estate.