It is not the only allegation of forced testimony: Tajul Islam, a defence lawyer, asserts that the prosecution has adopted a deliberate strategy of not producing witnesses so that their written rather oral testimony in court can be allowed as evidence.
Safe-haven laws, allowing a parent to surrender an infant without fear of prosecution, were adopted by every state over the last decade after numerous reports of babies left to die in trash bins or plastic bags.
The Legislature could go a long way toward ending unfair prosecutions by adopting Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to make public display of a small amount of marijuana a violation, unless the person was smoking the drug in public.
The two witnesses were granted immunity from prosecution in return for their testimony against Jacobs, after police and prosecutors adopted a strategy known as "kickers and stabbers" as they sought convictions.
Balls wrote: "In November 2012 a senior HMRC official told the Times that the government had adopted 'a selective prosecution policy' towards cases related to HSBC.
The director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, also confirmed in written evidence to MPs he has instructed the Crown Prosecution Service to adopt a far broader definition of what constitutes illegal phone hacking.
Instead of aggressively pursuing convictions of the perpetrators of white-collar crime, regulators adopted guidelines around deferred prosecutions, which would allow companies to investigate themselves, and change their behavior, without getting dragged through court, The New York Times reports.
To minimize the risk of prosecution, companies should adopt rigorous due diligence procedures and establish reputations for ethical business dealings.
United Nations officials have also said that any order protecting Americans from prosecution would have to be formally adopted by the government of Iraq.
The Democratic platform that was adopted called for the successful prosecution of the war and the postwar creation of a United Nations.
