Sentence examples for state prosecutions from inspiring English sources

This case presents the question of the limitations required by the Fifth Amendment's Self-Incrimination Clause upon subsequent state prosecutions of an individual compelled by the State to answer incriminating questions.

The case also involves the question whether, having passed such a law, valid on its face, the State can prosecute offenders in its own courts or whether United States courts have power to enjoin all state prosecutions merely because of a charge that the law is unconstitutional on its face, without first determining the constitutionality of the statute.

He started a series of state prosecutions for libel and conducted several great treason trials of the day, prosecuting the earls of Essex and Southampton (1600 01), Sir Walter Raleigh (1603), and the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot (1605).

This situation might indeed seriously hamper such state prosecutions.

It does not say anything about possible state prosecutions.

State prosecutions follow the criminal procedure code of the individual state.

"While the [Central Office] in Ludwigsburg has specialists who investigate the cases and develop the theory of prosecution, actually prosecuting a case falls to a state prosecution office," explained Elizabeth Barry White, a senior historian with the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

Or so claims the state prosecution agency.

It's time to introduce tougher measures," said Jose Bispo of the Pernambuco state prosecution service.

He is expected to face state prosecution for the rest of the victims.

If they find such evidence, they will recommend that the state prosecution service brings charges.