Sentence examples for prosecution year from inspiring English sources

"Obviously, the federal government is not in a position to mount that kind of prosecution year after year," said Richard Ford, the novelist, who has lived in New Orleans for 10 years.

Rape victim advocates and law enforcement officials urged removing the limitations in crimes in which DNA evidence can be used in prosecution years after a crime occurred.

"If Davis had pushed for witnesses before the Judiciary Committee and they'd taken the Fifth Amendment," she said this morning in a phone interview, "it would have ended the Siegelman prosecution years ago.

Given these data, one can predict that of the roughly 100 cases sent for prosecution per year, 23 will lead to trial and 21 to conviction.

"In Lancashire there were 100 prosecutions the year before last, in South Yorkshire there were no prosecutions," he said.

Professor David Ormerod QC, Law Commissioner for Criminal Law, said: "Violent behaviour results in almost 200,000 prosecutions each year.

Not hard to guess, though, how much 10 prosecutions a year does to deter a City spiv.

Seizures have gone up six times since 1993, but over the past three years only around 500 prosecutions a year have been brought.

Why is Polanski different from Alex Kelly, the Darien rapist who dodged prosecution for years by hanging out in Europe?

Mr. Rudolph escaped into the North Carolina mountains and remains at large, another suspect who has avoided prosecution for years.

But their prosecution – 70 years after the crimes – is seen as in the public interest for the wider message it sends.