Sentence examples for the prosecution itself from inspiring English sources

So obstruction during an investigation might violate § 1505, while if that same investigation leads to a criminal prosecution, obstruction during the prosecution itself would violate § 1503.

Some of the investigative techniques that became public during trial were such an outrage and an embarrassment that the prosecution itself had to attack them.

Also among the signatories of Wales's petition was Graham Linehan, writer of the sitcoms The IT Crowd, Black Books and Father Ted, who said the prosecution itself – not just the potential extradition – was a cause for alarm.

The prosecution itself is, in a way, the punishment, and through the rest of the movie, its director, Chaitanya Tamhane, a twenty-eight-year-old first-time filmmaker, lays bare some of the deep dysfunctions of the Indian judiciary, beginning with the ponderousness of Indian trials.

It is also interesting to contrast the discreet exclusion of a single witness because of torture — while the prosecution itself proceeds — with the way both the Bush and Obama Administrations have been able to get entire cases thrown out by invoking the state-secrets privilege.

But what are the most important questions to ask about the trial of Robert Brasillach? Kaplan, the literary critic (she is a professor of Romance studies and literature at Duke), clearly thinks they are the questions posed by the prosecution itself during the trial.

In a dissent in the case, Justice Antonin Scalia said that "until today" lawyers were required to give advice only about the criminal prosecution itself and not about other consequences of conviction like deportation.

But this one was unusual first because it involved the DPP, Alison Saunders, herself, and second because the decisive issue was not a question of the strength of the evidence but whether prosecution itself was in the public interest.

The "prosecution team itself" disagreed, preferring that the decision be left to a court, he added.

Julian Hayes, solicitor for Sidali Feddag, one of those acquitted, said the prosecution had itself described Mr Meguerba as unreliable in legal argument when the jury was not present.

A judge in a civilian court might at least have saved the prosecution from itself (morally speaking, if not in terms of getting a conviction at any price).