At this election Goebbels was one of the 10 Nazis elected to the Reichstag, which brought him a salary of 750 Reichsmarks a month and immunity from prosecution.

The two sides brought in the biggest names in the nation, William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution and Clarence Darrow for the defense, and the trial was followed on radio transmissions throughout America.

Therefore, an indictment must allege all the ingredients of the crime to such a degree of precision that it would allow the accused to assert double jeopardy if the same charges are brought up in subsequent prosecution.

He brought three men to Cape Town from the Kenhardt district to stand trial for attacks on farmers ( the prosecution was eventually waived by the Attorney General ).

Mistrial proceedings in civil and criminal courts do not always require that an argument brought by defense or prosecution be discredited, however appellate courts must consider the context and may discredit testimony as perjurious or prejudicial, even if the statement is technically true.

Albert Tannenbaum was brought in from Atlanta, where he was reportedly living, to testify for the prosecution.

If the Director of Public Prosecutions ( DPP ) felt that a certain video might be in breach of the Act, then a prosecution could be brought against the film's producers, distributors and retailers.

Although boxes of tapes were brought by prosecutors to the courthouse and rested near the prosecution table, none were entered into evidence and played for the jury.

The United States Supreme Court has defined the term as follows: " A selective prosecution claim is not a defense on the merits to the criminal charge itself, but an independent assertion that the prosecutor has brought the charge for reasons forbidden by the Constitution.

Malicious prosecution is a common law intentional tort, while like the tort of abuse of process, its elements include ( 1 ) intentionally ( and maliciously ) instituting and pursuing ( or causing to be instituted or pursued ) a legal action ( civil or criminal ) that is ( 2 ) brought without probable cause and ( 3 ) dismissed in favor of the victim of the malicious prosecution.

In 426 BC, Cleon brought an unsuccessful prosecution against Laches based on his generalship in the unsuccessful first Sicilian expedition.

In February 1681, Shaftesbury and his supporters brought another indictment against York, this time at the Old Bailey, with the grand jury this time finding the bill true, although York's counsel were able to pursue procedural delays until the prosecution lapsed.

The prosecution took the ground that the prints were harmful to public morals and brought the prayer-book and even religion itself into contempt.

He was brought in to advise on the prosecution of pirates off the coast of Somalia.

The head of IOR from 1971 to 1989, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, was under consideration for indictment in 1982 in Italy as an accessory of the bankruptcy ; however, he was never brought to trial due to the Italian courts ' ruling that the priest, being a high-ranking prelate of the Vatican, had diplomatic immunity from prosecution.

The prosecution claim she was killed by her parents because she brought shame on the family by her desire to lead a westernised lifestyle.

Historically, in England, with no police forces and no prosecution service, the only route to prosecution was through private prosecutions brought by victims at their own expense or lawyers acting on their behalf.

The first case which brought him prominently into notice and gave him assurance of ultimate success was the government prosecution, in 1752, of a bookseller, William Owen.

Fearing criminal prosecution, she left the country for Kyrgyzstan, returning on the advice of her lawyer who said that no criminal case would be brought against her.

Attempts by the prosecution had no consequences for Alvensleben and he died in 1970 without having been brought to trial.

Two separate forensic dentists, one representing the prosecution and one the defense, were brought in to analyze the mark.

In early 1710, the prosecution by the Whig government of the ultra-Tory preacher Dr. Henry Sacheverell for sermons delivered the previous year, led to the Sacheverell riots and brought the ministry into popular discredit.

Codreanu's resurgence brought arrest and prosecution under the martial law imposed in the country ; he was acquitted yet again.

He fought like a fiend for the helpless and oppressed, worked for the abolition of slavery, helped the Quakers and Indians, and worked against the prosecution of witches.

Facing a prosecution which has demanded the death penalty, he said: ' I have participated in the war against Communism in Korea and at Dienbienphu, and I have helped in the evacuation of North Vietnamese to the free world.

The recent publicity attending the successful federal prosecution of a conspiracy indictment against a number of electrical manufacturers has evoked a new respect for the anti-trust laws that is justified neither by their rationale nor by the results they have obtained.

He does not, however, exercise any direct authority in the provinces outside England, except in certain minor roles dictated by Canon in those provinces ( for example, he is the judge in the event of an ecclesiastical prosecution against the Archbishop of Wales ).

The adversarial system is the two-sided structure under which criminal trial courts operate that pits the prosecution against the defense.

However, both the prosecution and defence may appeal against the verdict on questions of law and fact in less serious offences ; in more serious offences, appeals are restricted to questions of law.

In the Netherlands, the state prosecution can appeal against a not-guilty verdict at the bench.

* The prosecution has a right of appeal against acquittal in summary cases if the decision appears to be wrong in law or in excess of jurisdiction.

Graffiti databases have increased in the past decade because they allow vandalism incidents to be fully documented against an offender and help the police and prosecution charge and prosecute offenders for multiple counts of vandalism.

This is why a public prosecution of a person whose surname is Smith would be referred to in writing as " R v Smith " ( or alternatively as " Regina v Smith " or " Rex v Smith " depending on the gender of the Sovereign reigning at the time of the case, Regina and Rex being Latin for " Queen " and " King " respectively ) ( and in either case may informally be pronounced as such ) and when cited orally in court would be pronounced " the Queen against Smith " or " the King against Smith " ( again depending on the gender of the reigning Sovereign ).

* Sovereign immunity, the prevention of lawsuits or prosecution against rulers or governments without their given consent

Michael and Lori Fortier testified against McVeigh and Nichols ; Michael was sentenced to 12 years in prison for failing to warn the U. S. government, and Lori received immunity from prosecution in exchange for her testimony.

The prosecution called 137 witnesses, including Michael Fortier and his wife Lori, and McVeigh's sister, Jennifer McVeigh, all of whom testified to confirm McVeigh's hatred of the government and his desire to take militant action against it.

The court held that “ The prosecution may not use statements, whether exculpatory or inculpatory, stemming from questioning initiated by law enforcement officers after a person has been taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way, unless it demonstrates the use of procedural safeguards effective to secure the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination ”

For example, in a trial under criminal law the prosecution has the burden of presenting prima facie evidence of each element of the crime charged against the defendant.

Failure to do so is against the law and is subject to arrest and prosecution.

On January 7, Clemens filed a defamation lawsuit against McNamee, claiming that the former trainer lied after being threatened with prosecution.

Certain lawyers and abuse advocates have openly wondered why a similar suit was not filed against archbishop Bernard Law, who escaped prosecution by going into exile in Vatican City.

Although siege warfare had moved out from an urban setting because city walls had become ineffective against modern weapons, trench warfare was nonetheless able to use many of the techniques of siege warfare in its prosecution ( sapping, mining, barrage and, of course, attrition ) but on a much larger scale and on a greatly extended front.

Mencken's trial reports were heavily slanted against the prosecution and the jury, which was " unanimously hot for Genesis.

His prosecution of the war against a German invasion of Gaul led to his overthrow by the troops he was leading there, whose regard the twenty-seven year old had lost during the affair.

One of his first serious works in caricature was the cartoon " Peace " ( 1862 ), directed against those in the North who opposed the prosecution of the American Civil War.

* " Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required " ( Strassler 201 / 3. 84. 3 ).

Nevertheless, he continued harassing Wilde, who eventually launched a private prosecution against the peer for criminal libel, triggering a series of trials ending in Wilde's imprisonment for gross indecency.