Sentence examples for prosecutions concerned from inspiring English sources

England has an independent "director of public prosecutions" concerned only with the most serious types of crime, but most prosecutions have been conducted by private barristers briefed by him or by the police.

What will you do when liberals, over Mr. Obama's objections, encourage Congress, the courts and the Justice Department to pursue investigations and prosecutions concerning the Bush administration's surveillance and interrogation policies?

…prevention, detection or criminal prosecutions concerning offences that, in view of the extent and seriousness of the interference with the fundamental rights in question, may be considered to be sufficiently serious to justify such an interference.

In continental European law, on the other hand, the question is whether the second prosecution concerns the same "material fact" or "historical event," and the state cannot subject a person to a second trial for any offense arising out of the same factual situation.

The Inquiries Reports of Trouble, But No Prosecutions Concern about the Family's existence first surfaced in 1994, when a number of officers staged a sickout.

John Beyer to Julian Petley In 1972 Lord Denning, then Master of the Rolls, observed that the 1959 Obscene Publications Act had "misfired" so far as prosecutions are concerned.

To hold first that the evidence may be admitted and second that its use may not be enjoined is to make the Fourth Amendment an empty and hollow guarantee so far as state prosecutions are concerned.

And it was history that, as far as the prosecution was concerned, stood at the center of the trial.

It was not truly Eichmann in the dock, Arendt concluded: "It was history that, as far as the prosecution was concerned, stood in the center of the trial".

The accusations raised an interesting legal paradox: as far as the prosecution was concerned, if the organisation could be deemed to be undermining state policy it followed that torture itself must be state policy.

I think the reason they did that was the prosecution was concerned that human experiments in general not be characterized as torture and murder". Harkness points out, however, that there were significant moral differences between the experiments in the concentration camps and in U.S. prisons.