Worse still, of cases reported, it says few use the courts for redress, partly because the prosecution often fails to verify the age of the defiled child.
By Keith Gessen As the eminent human-rights lawyer Karinna Moskalenko and the charismatic defense attorney Murad Musaev debated a confounding case, the prosecution often seemed adrift.
Inside the courtroom, in front of the jury, the prosecution often cited his lawsuit and his contact with Senate Intelligence Committee staffers as clear indications of bitterness, vengefulness and motive for taking the actions alleged in the indictment.
Even if it can match suspicious trades with insiders, the SEC's prosecutions often fail because the evidence is circumstantial.
Post-war prosecutions may also come into conflict with the need to cement the rule of law, as such prosecutions often require departures from the rules of procedural justice.
She had written a transition report for the new governor in which she noted that public corruption prosecutions often ran upon the shoals of politics in New Jersey and that prosecutors feared reprisals.
Iavor Rangelov, at the LSE Centre for the Study of Global Governance, suggests that criminal prosecutions often have incidental consequences, not least by opening up space for public debate.
In recent years, along with dozens of other journalists, writers and publishers, including the Nobel prize laureate Orhan Pamuk, Dink was systematically harassed, being subjected to a series of prosecutions often initiated by the extremist self-styled Union of Lawyers.
Such laws, in her view, would offer survivors a kind of dignity and control that criminal prosecutions often do not, while attaching the "stigma of bigotry" to perpetrators (248).
Restrictions on legal aid mean the prosecution is often better funded than the defence (and now solicitors are being asked to compete for contracts to represent defendants in order to drive costs down further).
