"It was the type of case that would not be prosecuted against anyone else," Bob Woodward wrote in "Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate" (1999).
There are lots of recent examples, like the bogus charges brought against Alexei Navalny, the heroic investigative blogger, and the posthumous case currently being prosecuted against, believe it or not, Sergei Magnitsky.
As a result, employees at the central office have begun looking through files for additional cases that could be prosecuted against guards at extermination camps and members of "Einsatzgruppen," or mobile SS killing squads.
In the past three years, prospective docking screens of large chemical libraries have been prosecuted against the β2-adrenergic receptor (β2AR), the adenosine A2A receptor, the histamine H1 receptor, the dopamine D3 receptor, and the chemokine CXC-4 receptor.
The conflict he had fought in had not been between states, but part of the amorphous war on terror that America had been prosecuting, against brutal but shadowy jihadist networks, since the attacks of September 11th 2001.
No one was prosecuted for striking against the government.
Gen. Videla was prosecuted for crimes against humanity and died in May whilst serving a life sentence in prison.
The women who came forward not only brought their attackers to justice in front of an international court, but the case was prosecuted with sexual assault against women as a crime against humanity for the first time.
In the infamous Scopes "Monkey trial" of 1925, John Scopes, a substitute high school biology teacher in Tennessee, was prosecuted for violating legislation against the teaching of Darwinian evolution.
He also noted the case of a fisherman who was prosecuted for violating a law against selling sea otters to non-native Alaskans — even though he didn't know the buyer wasn't a native.
