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"Certainty is a much more important aspect than severity," Mr. Simon said, arguing for more oversight and run-of-the-mill prosecutions, rather than the occasional high-profile trial.

This is an open door to atavistic tabloid editors to create a storm over any sentence they don't like, and will further press prison-junkie judges to send more inside for longer, with more pressure on the dysfunctional Crown Prosecution Service to initiate prosecutions rather than say that many add nothing to public safety.

But the RSPCA's policy of bringing private prosecutions rather than referring them to the Crown Prosecution Service was raised earlier this year in a parliamentary debate.

The government's focus so far has been on prosecution rather than reconciliation.

The judge objected strongly to several recent appeals decisions because, he said, they favored the prosecution rather than the rights of the accused.

If I decided to plead not guilty, Karen suspected that the prosecution, rather than go to trial, would eventually offer to reduce the sentence to adjournment in contemplation of dismissal (A.C.D ., essentially a six-month probation.

The F.B.I. took the lead in the Cook investigation, focusing on gathering evidence for a criminal prosecution rather than on immediately shutting down the fraud and securing investors' funds.

It is a conviction rooted so deeply in church dogma that dozens of members have endured criminal prosecution rather than surrender an ailing person to what they see as the quackery of medical science.

Justice Department officials say that a federal prosecution also holds the advantage of allowing the consolidation of all 10 fatal shootings in a single prosecution, rather than dividing them between the six in Montgomery County and the four in separate Virginia jurisdictions.

Each of these moves could fundamentally alter the way the legal system conceives of rights, upending notions that we all take for granted now, like the burden of proof -- which does and should lie with the prosecution, rather than with the defense -- and the presumption of innocence, rather than the proof of it.

Hanna Arendt, who covered the trial for the New Yorker, may have coined, for Eichmann, the phrase "the banality of evil", but in truth he was a deeply complex man, and very calculating in his denial, and it's notable that he only shows a brief twitch of emotion when caught out by the prosecution rather than when watching camp footage.