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• To the Editor: Your article says John Ashcroft, the former attorney general, defended deferred prosecutions at a Congressional hearing, saying "a deferred prosecution can avoid the catastrophic collateral consequences" of corporate conviction.

A week after the culture secretary, Sajid Javid, confirmed a review of the law that makes non-payment of your television licence a criminal offence (unlike, say, payment of your electricity bill), magistrates courts are still ploughing through large numbers of prosecutions, at a rate of about 3,500 a week.

The most senior judge in England and Wales also warned about the possible dangers of more prosecutions being privatised as state funding is being cut for both the police and Crown Prosecution Service, writing: "There is an increase in private prosecutions at a time of retrenchment of state activity".

Despite the fact that Scotland probably had about one quarter of the population of England, it had three times the number of witchcraft prosecutions, at an estimated 4,000 to 6,000 over the entire period.

Their prosecution, at a court a short distance from parliament, is the first to result from the Westminster expenses scandal.

Mr. Tinajero had testified for the prosecution at a murder trial and had been guaranteed special protection that never materialized.

For example, if a judge dismisses a prosecution at a preliminary hearing for lack of evidence, this determination does not bar the government from initiating new charges for the same offense, since jeopardy will not have attached at that point.

The Stand Your Ground provision also allows a defendant claiming self-defense to seek civil and criminal immunity from prosecution at a pretrial hearing based on a judge's determination.

While seven American democracy workers who were slated to be tried with Okail had been allowed to leave the country, she and dozens of her Egyptian colleagues still face prosecution at a trial re-set for June.

WARSAW, Nov. 28 — Poland is facing a rare war-crimes prosecution at a crucial juncture for both the newly elected government's commitment to overseas military engagements and the effort to overhaul the nation's armed forces.

A so-called Peace-Keeping Command Centree" now enforces martial law.The army will be keen to keep its move regarded as a "non-coup" to prevent Thailand's being cut off from international capital markets, and to prevent its officers' prosecution at a later date.