We hope Al Gore uses this opportunity to explain why during his term, teen drug use in America nearly doubled, the number of drug treatment beds in federal prisons were cut by over one-third, the office of National Drug Control Policy was cut by 83 percent and federal gun prosecutions have decreased by 46 percent.
Quotes about prosecutions (16 Quotes)
If permitted to stand, the practical impact of such a ruling would have devastating consequences for prosecutions of child predators who troll the Internet looking for children to entice and ultimately harm,
We have repeatedly expressed our concern that there is a rush to judgement in this matter and for political reasons, the indictments and prosecutions of a limited number of drifters will be passed off to the public as a completely successful investigation resulting in the arrest of all concerned. These assurances are, to be certain, not credible.
To an amazing extent, careless e-mailing has become one of the most frequent minefields in civil and criminal discovery. Case after case, ranging from criminal prosecutions to sexual harassment lawsuits, have been anchored on careless e-mails.
The prosecution's blatant discovery abuse unnecessarily extends the hearing, thus wasting this court's time and resources. Sanctions are in order for the willful failure to produce discovery.
If the government wants to put an end to these types of transactions, the proper response is for Congress to change the law, not to scare professionals away with indictments. It is a misuse of prosecutorial discretion to use criminal prosecutions to change accepted and legitimate standards of conduct,
Amendment VI In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation to be confronted with the witnesses against him to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
This is what we are finding now. These are animals that were neglected and abused before. If this was a normal situation, we'd have a lot of animal abuse prosecutions.
When you have two highly placed cooperators, it eases the prosecution's burden substantially. At the same time, when you're faced with officers who are trying a hear-no-evil, see-no-evil defense, your corroborator is bolstered because the hear-no-evil see-no-evil defense just doesn't strike jurors as common sense.
The strategy in all these prosecutions is to secure cooperation and slowly build cases against more senior participants.
The best news in this year's report is the significant decline in cigarette smoking, not just because that ultimately is the most deadly drug but also because it confirms that drug abuse is best reduced through sensible public health measures rather than criminal penalties, prosecutions and prisons.
There has to be prosecutions for the failure in the chain of command for those officers who were responsible for not carrying out the ... order that all patrols should carry a satellite phone and should have 150 rounds of ammunition.
Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in.
The report provides extensive data on domestic institutional capacities to prosecute the alleged perpetrators of criminal acts against the voting and elections process - committed during the 2005 Local Elections - and a detailed analysis of the prosecutions undertaken and sanctions imposed.
Most agree that the prosecution of killers whose identity was an open secret has had a salutary effect. But with witnesses and suspects dying off, there are not likely to be any more successful prosecutions, said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which built a monument to civil rights martyrs in Montgomery, Ala. The point of doing all of this is so that we as a society can move forward, ... And the time is really coming when we really are going to turn and face the future.
There have been prosecutions going down the chain of the command but not going up. Its not enough to prosecute the people who were following orders.