Sentence examples for unfounded prosecutions from inspiring English sources

Greaves, whose real name is Doug Mesner, became interested in Satan after what he calls the "Satanic Panic" of the 1990s, when "recovered memories" about "Satanic rituals" led to spectacular and unfounded prosecutions.

Last month, Nancy Patterson, a lawyer who worked on the case for Crane, wrote in a memorandum that the investigation was "an unfortunate example of an unfounded prosecution of a private employer".

"The stated fear of the United States was that some renegade or malicious prosecutor might some day initiate unfounded political prosecutions against United States citizens," Goldstone writes.

The spying charges against the Jews drew international attention because the charges were unfounded and the prosecution unfair.

The optimism on their part isn't unfounded, since the prosecution has indeed forced itself into retreat out of what looks like sheer incompetency.

Because New York homicide law defines a victim as a person born alive, Jorgensen's attorney says her conviction is unfounded and sets a standard allowing for prosecutions of mothers on charges dangerously outside the law.

The prosecution said the complaints were unfounded.

Judge Clemon, in throwing out the indictment for lack of evidence, wrote that the prosecution "was completely without legal merit" and in a further remarkable statement, said that the prosecution of Siegelman "was the most unfounded criminal case over which I presided in my entire judicial career".

The London-based Goldman Sachs banker Fabrice Tourre, who is at the centre of a $1bn£650m0m) fraud prosecution, came out fighting today with a vigorous rebuttal of "unfounded attacks" on his character and motives.

"The 2004 prosecution of Mr. Siegelman in the Northern District of Alabama was the most unfounded criminal case over which I presided in my entire judicial career," Clemon wrote U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder last week.

In a statement issued by her media advisers within minutes of the announcement, Ms. Knox said it was "painful" to receive the court's ruling "when the prosecution's theory of my involvement in Meredith's murder has been repeatedly revealed to be completely unfounded and unfair".