Sentence examples for start of prosecutions from inspiring English sources

This marked the start of prosecutions of Centre Democrats party members on charges of racism, as well as the decision by the other parties in Parliament and government to place a cordon sanitaire around the party.

The question of necessity for the wiretaps has been hotly contested since the start of the prosecution of Mr. Rajaratnam.

Before the start of the prosecution case, Judge Philip Parker QC told potential jurors only people who had never watched Benefits Street could sit on the jury.

The 1917 Espionage Act has been wielded six times since Obama entered the White House, twice the number of prosecutions started by all previous administrations combined.

"I've put my money where my mouth is," he added in an interview, by redirecting his overstretched resources toward a more careful selection of cases and starting a computerized study of prosecutions to see why they so often fail.

There were raids on 40 addresses in the US and five in the UK in January, and a grand jury has been hearing evidence against the group in California at the start of a possible federal prosecution.

At the start of the trial, the prosecution's case was expected to take around four weeks and the defense was expected to take one day.

And starting today, prosecutions of people arrested for theft and drug crimes are being delayed because there is not enough money for prosecution or legal defense.

Bradley Manning, the US soldier who has been held in confinement for the past 18 months on suspicion of having leaked a huge trove of state secrets to WikiLeaks, is to go before a military panel on 16 December at the start of the most high-profile prosecution of a whistleblower in a generation.

In August 2005, almost a year after the start of the defence case, the Prosecution argued in a renewed Rule 54 bis motion that the testimony of Božidar Delić revealed that the Defence had been provided with extensive access to VJ documents, documents that had been the subject of prior litigation between the Prosecution and Serbia and Montenegro (see Prosecutor v. Milošević 24 August 2005, para. 2).

And he recently lost his immunity from prosecution, allowing the start of a trial in which he is accused of paying a bribe to a lawyer for false testimony in other corruption cases.