New Hampshire used to see no irony in using repeated prosecutions to compel its residents to display "Live Free or Die", even for those who had religious objections.
Mr. Cogan called the repeated prosecutions a vendetta against his client because he had refused to testify about drug dealing in the Mantua area.
The likelihood of repeated prosecutions even if the defendants are sentenced to death is based on politics and a desire to treat the victims with equal dignity.
Former marine Stephen Gough, from Eastleigh, Hampshire, had alleged that his repeated arrest, prosecution, conviction and imprisonment for being nude in public and his treatment in detention violated his rights.
Art Sotloff was incensed by the repeated threats of prosecution.
In large part because of the city's zero-tolerance policing strategy, these trafficking victims face repeated arrest and prosecution, an experience that serves only to reinforce their isolation.
"Given that the attorney general made repeated threats of prosecution, of course Mr. Rattner's lawyers advised him not to speak," in response to any of 68 questions he was asked, said Mr. Goldin, his spokesman.
The prosecution repeated its request that the court impose a defense lawyer on Mr. Milosevic but the former Yugoslav president retorted that the court had no right to do so and that he would continue his own defense.
