defence

Examples of prosecution

prosecution
There have been no prosecutions or investigations of individuals that have precipitated or instigated the violence.
Relative to the size of the populations involved, prosecutions by provincial excise departwas 866 or one to only 6,160 persons.
In order to maintain credibility, informers had to pass information to agencies of sufficient quality to ensure successful conversion into prosecutions.
In policy terms low prosecutions are most likely when the judicial system is in need of institutional reform.
The statistics are limited in that they do not indicate the outcomes of prosecutions or proceedings.
Criminal prosecutions at the assizes almost invariably began by the submitting of bills of indictment, and supporting depositions, to the grand jury.
Strong resistance and threats of legal prosecutions thus characterized the process of adaptation.
The aim of presenting the evidence is to corroborate the prosecution's theory of the crime.
On an ideological level, prosecutions may be difficult to achieve.
Unsurprisingly, prosecutions for poaching plummeted precisely in areas of the country where the late nineteenth-century revolution in food supply and diet was most evident.
The pattern is even more clearly demonstrated when domestic violence and the - frequently studied - prosecutions for witchcraft are considered.
Data on crimes and population refer to areas policed by county constabularies; prosecutions in boroughs were minimal.
In this respect, the outcomes of these cases may be contrasted with the much less forgiving reactions of juries in livestock theft prosecutions.
Most of these prosecutions were aimed at a handful of publications, so at any given time a great deal of arguably seditious material circulated freely.
Just over half of the libel prosecutions of 1819-20 ended in some sort of sentence for the defendant, usually a few months in gaol.
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Collocations withprosecution

prosecution

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criminal prosecution
The dancing girls, however, have contrived to carry out their object without rendering themselves amenable to criminalprosecution.
fear of prosecution
Free from fearofprosecution, former military officers were active in business and held elected office.
malicious prosecution
The third consequence that we must consider touches on cases such as false imprisonment and maliciousprosecution which are tried by jury.
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