Sentence examples for waive prosecution from inspiring English sources
Mann, whose proposal to waive prosecution for people with information about abuse was rejected by MPs last month, urged the government to reconsider the idea.
Desperate to raise quick cash, many states have been offering amnesties that waive prosecution, penalties and even some interest (see box).
The program is expected to coax $175 million out of delinquent taxpayers by offering a two-point drop in interest on back taxes and by waiving prosecution or sanctions.
According to the Swiss press, the government has demanded that the United States waive criminal prosecutions of the banks, which hold between $680 billion and $800 billion in secret assets from around the world.
Defense lawyers, at the beginning of the case, waived the prosecution's deadline for reaching an indictment.
Mr. Harris's lawyer, Richard Barbuto, did not return calls seeking comment but previously said that his client would waive immunity from prosecution.
There is so much evidence being massed against Sarkozy that Eva Joly, a former anti-terrorist judge who is now standing against him as Green party candidate for the presidency, said he should waive his immunity from prosecution immediately.
Sometimes when a diplomat is accused of a serious offence, his or her government will waive immunity, allowing a prosecution to go ahead.
Around the country, a few states still have mandatory sequestration laws, which can be waived if the prosecution and defense agree, said Tom Munsterman, director of the Center for Jury Studies at the National Center for State Courts, a research group in Arlington, Va.
But on any attempts to bring legal redress for the UN's own admission of failure, the international organisation is unwilling to waive its own immunity from prosecution.
The guards may be a lot more interested if Washington makes it clear that it is ready to waive the immunity from Iraqi prosecution, granted to contractors by the American occupation government three years ago.
