Sentence examples for whose prosecution from inspiring English sources

A court in Tajikistan on Tuesday released two men — a Russian and an Estonian — whose prosecution had led to a confrontation with Moscow.

The leaders of the rightwing militia in Oregon could spend more years in prison than the two ranchers whose prosecution and imprisonment inspired the occupation.

They could face up to six years behind bars – meaning they could be in prison for more years than the Hammond ranchers whose prosecution inspired the standoff.

They said the measure was an effort to create a class of "thought crimes" whose prosecution would require ascribing motivation to the attacker.

MOSCOW — Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, a former billionaire whose prosecution by the Russian government has come to symbolize the country's legal failings, lost an appeal on Tuesday to overturn a second conviction.

A man who acted as a spokesman for the 'hacktivist' group Anonymous and whose prosecution raised concerns about the protections supposedly guaranteed to journalists under the constitution, has been jailed for more than five years.

He was protective of associates, whose prosecutions he saw as unjust.

One of his notable failures was the case against Roy Lindley DeVecchio, a former F.B.I. agent whose murder prosecution fell apart after it became apparent that Mr. Vecchione withheld information that seriously questioned the credibility of his star witness.

Ms. Mayer pieces together detailed case histories for several prisoners, beginning with "detainee 001," the so-called American Taliban, John Walker Lindh, whose botched prosecution led the administration to decide, in Ms. Mayer's words, that "open criminal trials under the strict rules of the American legal system were not worth the risk".

Moreover, the bombings laid the groundwork for the furious military campaign against Chechnya and for the political rise of Mr. Putin, then the prime minister, whose relentless prosecution of the war garnered a surge of popular support that propelled him into the presidency.

First the corruption trial of Bo Xilai, a Politburo member whose son, the prosecution alleged, enjoyed a high-rolling lifestyle in the West.