Sentence examples for were prosecuted for having from inspiring English sources

In Lawrence, the defendants were prosecuted for having consensual sex with each other under a Texas law that forbade sodomy by homosexuals but not by heterosexuals.

[Excerpts, Pages A18-19.] While the result had been widely anticipated since the court agreed in December to hear an appeal brought by two Houston men who were prosecuted for having sex in their home, few people on either side of the case expected a decision of such scope from a court that only 17 years ago, in Bowers v. Hardwick, had dismissed the same constitutional argument as "facetious".

But she could not conceive of an editor being prosecuted for having broken such a convention.

In 1977, the director Roman Polanski was prosecuted for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.

Another, which criminalises the witting spread of disease, means that people who know they are HIV-positive can be prosecuted for having sex, even with a condom.

Yet such is the current hysteria that he is to be prosecuted for having a "weapon of mass destruction", namely a pressure cooker.

Later, she told Europe 1 it was "scandalous to be prosecuted for having a political opinion in the country of freedom of expression".

Today in a courtroom in Provo, Utah, jury selection began for a trial in which Mr. Green is the first man in more than 50 years in Utah to be prosecuted for having multiple wives.

Mrs. Pirro will also appear in a public service announcement to be shown on MTV, BET and Comedy Central starting this week to tell teenagers that they can be prosecuted for having fake driver's licenses.

On a slightly less outrageous level, some argue that the age of consent is somewhat arbitrary, and serves little more than a practical function, lamenting how 'unfair' it is for 40-year-olds to be prosecuted for having sex with willing, and wanting, 15-year-olds.

Erdogan has also all but dismissed the possibility of peace, and has even gone as far as suggesting that the HDP, which won overwhelming support from Turkey's Kurds, and indeed Turks, could be prosecuted for having ties to the PKK.