Sentence examples for unconscionable prosecution from inspiring English sources
I've written several columns about the unconscionable prosecution of an honest New York City detective named Zaher Zahrey.
Henry Blaxland QC, the defence counsel, said: "If it is the case that HM government was actively involved in supporting armed resistance to the Assad regime at a time when the defendant was present in Syria and himself participating in such resistance it would be unconscionable to allow the prosecution to continue".
"It's unconscionable, from a perspective of a criminal prosecution – or an interrogation, for that matter".
Writing for the majority, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson said that in criminal cases, for instance, it would be unconscionable to allow the government "to undertake prosecution and then invoke its governmental privileges to deprive the accused of anything which might be material to his defense".
We assumed our carefully compiled files would spark a DOJ investigation and, ultimately, a prosecution of the farm bosses behind those unconscionable abuses.
Imposing the death penalty on prisoners who've been tortured while in US custody would be entirely unconscionable, but declining to impose the ultimate punishment in these prosecutions would be a way – though an imperfect one, as others have noted – to acknowledge the taint of torture that will linger over the legal proceedings.
The prosecution tale unfolds like this: one night in 1982, Rodney broke into a home in St Louis, Missouri, and did the unconscionable.
Unconscionable," Richardson said.
