Sentence examples for selected for prosecution from inspiring English sources

Why was Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky selected for prosecution?

Mr. Garcia, disputing criticism in some quarters that Mr. Spitzer was selected for prosecution by Republican administration officials, reiterated what he said when he announced that he would not bring charges: His office began its investigation after learning of payments made in a questionable manner by Mr. Spitzer to a bank account in the name of a front company for the prostitution ring.

Begg, who was one of the first Guantánamo prisoners George W. Bush selected for prosecution before a military tribunal, has said intelligence he provided his captors was unreliable because it was extracted from him while he was being tortured.

How Ms. Fletcher came to be selected for federal prosecution among the countless pornography purveyors is a vivid illustration of the fractured and uncertain state of the enforcement of obscenity law in the nation.

Three quarters of those selected for federal death penalty prosecution in the early 1990's were members of minority groups, he said, and Ms. Gilbert, who is white, helps "make the numbers look better".

"What every prosecutor is practically required to do is to select the cases for prosecution and to select those in which the offense is the most flagrant, the public harm the greatest, and the proof the most certain".

The NAO said HMRC had recognised it needed to "align the cases it selects for criminal investigation more closely with its analysis of risk and how effective a successful prosecution would be in creating a deterrent".

HMRC has met a target to increase its number of prosecutions by 1,000 by 2014-15, buthehe NAO said it "needs to better prioritise the cases it selects for criminal investigations".

Will a newly selected chief of prosecution abruptly decide the case has no merit?

By the prosecution's theory, the men had selected Mr. Sandy for robbery because they believed that a gay man would put up little resistance and would hesitate to report the crime.

Already, the calls for prosecution have begun.