Sentence examples for prosecution years from inspiring English sources

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.

"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.

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.

The defendant, Heinrich Boere, was able to evade prosecution for years, first by fleeing the Netherlands and then because German courts ruled he could not be extradited.

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] terroristsSIR – Even though Zacarias Moussaoui's tortured prosecution took years and ended somewhat inconclusively, his case illustrates the value of trying suspected terrorists in a federal civilian court ("The one who got away", May 6th).