A multibillionaire asbestos owner-executive, Stephan Schmidheiny, was sentenced to 18 years in jail for creating an environmental disaster causing thousands of deaths from mesothelioma by an Italian trial court and court of appeal; he only avoided conviction when the highest court threw the case out on a legal technicality (crimes prosecuted after the statute of limitations had run) [ 17].
But without a Rove indictment, the affair looks unlikely to mutate in the way the left hopes.Mr Fitzgerald indicted Mr Libby on technicalities rather than the main crime (outing a CIA agent).
Mr. Hatch and other proponents of the measure say law enforcement agents have been hamstrung by legal technicalities even when they witness a crime taking place and do not have time to seek a warrant.
Some Republicans, including Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas on "Meet the Press", a Sunday chat show, argued that perjury was equivalent to a technicality if there was no underlying crime.
In "Republicans Testing Ways to Blunt Leak Charges" (front page, Oct. 24), you quote Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas, saying she hoped "that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn't indict on the crime".
THE best defense against a media circus may be the inherent technicality of most war crimes trials.
As Blauner's novel opens, Vega has just been released from prison, on a technicality, when Loughlin is called to investigate a crime that bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the earlier murder.
They are also unfixed technicalities – the scope has already been expanded from serious crime to terrorism and now to the Rotherham sexual abuse case, One legal adviser told the Independent: "There are no limits.
In short, in the vast majority of death-penalty cases we have no idea whether the finding of error that led to a reversal was based on a legal technicality, a changing high-court standard about how a capital crime ought to be tried or a judgment that the defendants might be innocent.
They said there was an "acute unfairness" in permitting Virginia to use the defendant's criminal record to establish his "future dangerousness" for purposes of the death penalty while relying on a technicality -- the absence of a final judgment for one crime -- to keep information about parole away from the jury.
