Sentence examples for publicized prosecution from inspiring English sources

He won a death sentence this year in the highly publicized prosecution of David Westerfield for the murder of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam.

Given the attention paid to Mr. Strauss-Kahn's arrest, Mr. Vance deserves enormous credit for pulling the plug on a highly publicized prosecution, especially since he could foresee the political damage to himself.

Critics of the Justice Department have questioned what they describe as the lenient treatment of Mr. Deutch in light of its highly publicized prosecution of Wen Ho Lee, a former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist who has been charged with transferring and copying secret nuclear data from the laboratory.

Should Mr. Vance's office move to dismiss the charges against Mr. Strauss-Kahn, 62, it would end one of the most dramatic and widely publicized prosecutions in New York in decades without any clear indication of whether he forced himself on her, as she has said, or whether the sexual encounter was consensual.

But with the alarming nature of the crime provoking sometimes rushed action, there is also a record of highly publicized prosecutions gone awry, with innocent people imprisoned for years, other cases eventually dismissed for lack of evidence and physical attacks not only on suspects but on people mistaken for them.

There have not been many publicized prosecutions of individuals violating anti-salvia laws in the few countries and states in which it has been made illegal.

WASHINGTON — A former spy agency employee agreed late Thursday to plead guilty to a minor charge in a highly publicized leak prosecution, undercutting the Obama administration's unusual campaign to prosecute government officials who disclose classified information to the press.

The award for magazine reporting went to Jane Mayer of The New Yorker for an article about Thomas A. Drake, a former official of the National Security Agency who had been charged with espionage in a highly publicized leak prosecution.

But legal experts who have been following the trial, one of the most highly publicized environmental prosecutions in American history, say the government's problems transcend the usual sparring.

Tenenbaum's is the second highly publicized file-sharing prosecution, following the $1.92 million judgment against a Minnesota woman, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, earlier this summer.

Stewart's well-publicized prosecution, conviction and likely incarceration remind us that lying to law-enforcement officials is serious criminal activity that gets prosecuted.