During the trial, the prosecution asserted that the children were killed as part of a satanic ritual.

During the trial the prosecution was unable to present any witnesses to the alleged abuse.

During the last 15 years this method has been used several times: to confirm a law renouncing prosecution of members of the military who violated human rights during the military regime ( 1973 – 1985 ); to stop privatization of public utilities companies ; to defend pensioners ' incomes ; and to protect water resources.

During the last quarter of the century, the Inquisition reinforced its prosecution of the Jews, locally named xuetes.

During Carpenter's 1994 trial, defense attorneys attacked the prosecution case as circumstantial and inconclusive.

During the trial, all six witnesses of the prosecution were rebuffed, none of them telling the same story-four of them had repeatedly changed their testimonies during the trial, while the remaining two had presented testimonies that contradicted all known forensic evidence, suggesting that they had very little involvement with the case.

During what was at the time the costliest and longest trial in American history, totaling more than half a million dollars, ($ 9, 000, 000 in 2008 dollars ) the prosecution presented 46 witnesses, including two of Toguri's former supervisors at Radio Tokyo, and soldiers who testified they could not distinguish between what they had heard on radio broadcasts and what they had heard by way of rumor.

During Hovind's trial, the prosecution said the ministry does not have the proper licensing nor is it registered as a nonprofit, which resulted in legal troubles mentioned below.

[...] While we congratulate the CNMI for its recent successful prosecution of a case in which foreign women were pressured into prostitution, human trafficking remains far more prevalent in the CNMI than it is in the rest of the U. S. During the twelve-month period ending on April 30, 2007, 36 female victims of human trafficking were admitted to or otherwise served by Guma ' Esperansa, a women ’ s shelter operated by a Catholic nonprofit organization.

During his 1919 trial for allegedly obstructing American military recruitment during World War I, at which he testified in his own defense, the prosecution asked Scott Nearing whether he was a " pacifist socialist.

During the Parliamentary recess of the summer of 1797 he was senior counsel for the Crown in the prosecution of John Binns for sedition.

During the following four days of negotiations, authorities agreed to 28 of the prisoners ' demands, but would not agree to demands for complete amnesty from criminal prosecution for the prison takeover or for the removal of Attica's superintendent.

During prosecution testimony, Victoria Price stated that she and Ruby Bates witnessed the fight, that one of the black boys had a gun, and that they all raped her at knifepoint.

During closing, the prosecution thundered " If you don't give these men death sentences, the electric chair might as well be abolished.

During the second trial's prosecution testimony, Victoria Price stuck with her story mostly, stating flatly that Patterson raped her.

During the two-month trial, the prosecution presented a " mountain of circumstantial evidence ", calling 151 witnesses.

During 1960s, the mini sari known as ' hipster ' sari created a wrinkle in Sri Lankan fashion, since it was worn below the navel and barely above the line of prosecution for indecent exposure.

During this period he enjoyed a very large practice at the bar, being instructed in many causes célèbres including the Swynfen will case and Cardinal Newman's criminal prosecution for his libel of Giacinto Achilli.

During sentencing, the prosecution introduced evidence of Rowseys extensive criminal record, while the defense presented evidence of a difficult childhood.

During the trial, the defense routinely antagonized the judge and prosecution, and five of the defendants were sent to jail for contempt of court for disrupting the trial.

During the retrial, it was noted that, while the police did follow procedure collecting evidence, lapses occurred in the prosecution.

During this time, he led the prosecution of the Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.

During the transition of power from Ming Dynasty to Qing Dynasty in China, many anti-Qing elements fled prosecution and came to Vietnam.

During the prosecution of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, all the bishops who supported her were executed, and Eudoxia was transferred to a convent in Ladoga.

During the 1900s ( decade ) and 1910s, two parliamentary factions alternated in government, one led by Sidney Sonnino, and the other one, by far the larger of the two, led by Giovanni Giolitti.

During a period of over 40 years, Smyth sexually abused and indecently assaulted over 100 children in parishes in Belfast, Dublin and the United States.

During that stay, he experiences an induced flashback that leads him to realize that his father had abused him many years ago.

During WWII the hospital was emptied and abused by the Nazis as the Moringen concentration camp.

During the custody battle, the children had spent three months in a home for abused children as wards of the court.

During the therapy sessions, Raglan discovers that Nola was physically and verbally abused by her self-pitying alcoholic mother, and neglected by her co-dependent alcoholic father, who refused to protect Nola out of shame and denial.

During the first year of his second stint with the Jets, Coles revealed that he had been sexually abused between ages 10 to 13 by a man whom his mother, Sirretta married.

During 1907 Edgar travelled to the Congo Free State, to report on how the native Congolese were being horribly abused by representatives of King Leopold II of Belgium.

During further appeals, Robinson's defense lawyers continued to content that Robinson was the victim of racial discrimination, that he was abused as a child, and that Fields, with an IQ of 50, was coerced by prosecutors into giving false testimony.

During his time as President, Newton arguably abused his authority ; in a dispute between himself and Gottfried Leibniz over the invention of infinitesimal calculus, he used his position to appoint an " impartial " committee to decide it, eventually publishing a report written by himself in the committee's name.

During the Cultural Revolution, Kang abused his position to personal advantage.

During the 1993 investigation, Homolka stated to investigators that Bernardo had abused her, and that she had been an unwilling accomplice to the murders.

During the Age of Sail, shore leave was often abused by the members of the crew, who took it as a prime opportunity to drink in excess, indulge in other pleasures denied to them aboard the solely masculine ships, and desert.

During the hearing, Joseph Smith and his companions were not allowed to call any witnesses for their defense ( as sometimes happened during such proceedings ) and were abused in various ways.

During her research Dr. Lewis found that most if not all of the inmates she worked with have been abused as children.

During arguments, the New Jersey Supreme Court justices questioned whether this precedent would be abused in the future.

During World War II, he was a conscientious objector and was, by his own account, violently abused while in a detention camp.

During the campaign, his wife who was 5 months pregnant, was physically abused by ZANU activists on their farm and subsequently lost her baby boy.

During 1977, Seattle Superior Court Judge David Soukup was faced with making decisions on behalf of abused and neglected children with only the information provided by the state child protective services.

During a run-in, The Miz and R-Truth verbally abused him, to which Armstrong retaliated by punching The Miz in the face before being beaten down by the two.

During her childhood, she was abused by her mother for being overweight, driving her to drugs and leading to her later fixation on becoming a mother herself.

During the Vietnam War, prisoners who had been held at the prison in the 1960s said they were abused and tortured.

During the match Brown and Newcastle manager Joe Kinnear were both sent to the stands after a confrontation in which Brown verbally abused Newcastle's assistant manager Chris Hughton.

He later wrote, " During the publication of those facsimile notes I was the ' best abused man ' in the Union.

During a 2-0 loss on 15 April 2012 to reigning league champions Fenerbahçe, Zokora was racially abused by former Premier League rival Emre Belözoğlu.