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 the prosecution Giolitti abused his position as premier to abstract documents bearing on the case.

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 one of the lawsuits defendants demanded copies of the " medical " studies and Choudhury claimed he could not find them.

During questioning by defendants, McDonald's Senior Vice President of Marketing David Green admitted that showing the reality of meat production " would not be very appetizing ".

During the 1960s, a movement which provided defendants with legal aid emerged from the collective efforts of various bar associations.

During the trials, Jones received frequent lynching threats and was said to have shifted his location each night to avoid those who wanted the Elaine 12 defendants convicted at any cost.

During a speech before one of the largest KKK rallies in Arkansas history the night before his inauguration, Terral vowed to execute the remaining Elaine 12 defendants as his first official duty in office.

During the trial, all the defendants and both defense attorneys had been cited for contempt and sentenced to jail, but all of those convictions were also overturned.

During the course of the trial the judge held several of the defendants and all of their counsel in contempt of court.

During the trials, Vyshinsky misappropriated the house and money of Leonid Serebryakov, one of the defendants of the infamous Moscow Trials, who was later executed.

During these, the defendants were typically accused of things such as sabotage, spying, counter-revolution, and conspiring with Germany and Japan to invade and partition the Soviet Union.

During the trial of Radek and Piatakov ( Trial of the Seventeen ), Yagoda extracted confessions from the defendants, thus revealing inadvertently that the men did not have any political differences with Stalin, a fact the Soviet state prosecutor was unable to challenge.

During the trial, evidence was presented that the defendants had received funds from the U. S. Interests Section.

During the appeal against the conviction of the Bridgewater Four, the forensic linguist examined the written confession of Patrick Molloy, one of the defendants — a confession which he had retracted immediately — and a written record of an interview which the police claimed took place immediately before the confession was dictated.

During his career as a defense attorney he represented defendants accused of being some of the leading organized crime figures in Las Vegas, such as Meyer Lansky, Nicky Scarfo, Herbert " Fat Herbie " Blitzstein, Phil Leonetti, former Stardust Casino boss Frank ' Lefty ' Rosenthal, and Jamiel " Jimmy " Chagra, a 1970s drug trafficker who was acquitted of ordering the murder of Federal Judge John H. Wood, Jr. His most notorious client was reputed Chicago mobster Anthony " Tony the Ant " Spilotro, who was known to have a short and violent temper.

During the trial, the jury was allowed by the judge to consider as evidence articles written by the defendants in support of political violence, conversations about their desire for revolution, and other past materials.

During the 1960s the Warren Court made a series of rulings expanding the rights of criminal defendants.

During the 2003 crackdown popularly known as the Black Spring, MCL members would comprise around 40 of the 75 defendants, though Payá himself was not arrested.

During 2007 and 2008, SFLC filed a series of copyright infringement lawsuits against various defendants, on behalf of Erik Andersen and Rob Landley, the principal developers of BusyBox.

During the trial, the defendants were kept in reinforced iron cages, as they were considered " extremely dangerous ".

The trial of Price and the other defendants began on October 7, 1967 as United States v. Cecil Price, et al .. During this time Price declared himself a candidate for sheriff and he lost the election to Hop Barnette who was one of his co-defendants.

The court ruled: " During the prosecutor's opening statement and during the government's entire direct case against defendants, which spanned at least seven trial days, no one was present in the courtroom to represent Clark's interests.