Sentence examples for successive prosecutions from inspiring English sources
The Supreme Court ruled that double jeopardy did not apply to Lara since "the successive prosecutions were brought by separate and distinct sovereign bodies".
Experienced federal prosecutors will determine whether the evidence reveals a prosecutable violation of any of the limited federal criminal civil rights statutes within our jurisdiction, and whether federal prosecution is appropriate in accordance with the Department's policy governing successive federal prosecution following a state trial.
Pfizer has been hit with three successive deferred-prosecution agreements, for illegal marketing, bribing doctors, and other crimes.
Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the United States attorney who oversaw the criminal prosecutions of successive Illinois governors on corruption charges as well as of the former Bush administration White House aide I. Lewis Libby Jr., will resign at the end of June, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
But after successive investigations ended without prosecutions, many believed the case would be dropped.
"The framers of the Constitution wanted to preclude government harassment of citizens via successive and potentially harassing prosecutions," Bremner explained to HuffPost.
The decision of the US court of military commission review confirmed what we've long known, but successive Australian governments have conveniently ignored – the treatment and prosecution of Hicks was always outside of the law.
Yet successive US administrations supported the Shah until the very end and then shielded him from prosecution after his overthrow.
What they have seen is that since 2011, each successive regime that has come into power has allowed police and army chiefs to escape prosecution while critics of the government have been enthusiastically pursued through the courts.
Because the president is immune from prosecution but is accused of serious graft, the court has instead repeatedly gone after his successive prime ministers.
