In England and Wales ( except in private prosecutions by individuals ) an indictment is issued by the public prosecutor ( in most cases this will be the Crown Prosecution Service ) on behalf of the Crown, i. e. the Monarch, who is the nominal plaintiff in all public prosecutions under English law.

The public nature of their relationship, and the repeated prosecutions and even jail time they have served as a result, has caused some in Germany to question whether incest between consenting adults should be punished at all.

Processors of irradiated food are subject to all existing regulations, inspections, and potential penalties regarding plant safety and sanitation ; including fines, recalls, and criminal prosecutions.

" The right was expanded with the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states in part, " 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.

The Sixth Amendment guarantees a defendant a right to counsel in all criminal prosecutions.

On the contrary, we think that the peace and dignity of the state, which all criminal prosecutions are brought to redress, will be the better conserved by the entry of a nolle prosequi herein.

The development of the British constitution, which is not a codified document, is based on this fusion in the person of the Monarch, who has a formal role to play in the legislature ( Parliament, which is where legal and political sovereignty lies, is the Crown-in-Parliament, and is summoned and dissolved by the Sovereign who must give his or her Royal Assent to all Bills so that they become Acts ), the executive ( the Sovereign appoints all ministers of His / Her Majesty's Government, who govern in the name of the Crown ) and the judiciary ( the Sovereign, as the fount of justice, appoints all senior judges, and all public prosecutions are brought in his or her name ).

The right to petition was an echo of the English Bill of Rights 1689 which stated " t is the right of the subjects to petition the king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal ".

Most important, they assumed collective responsibility for carrying Mafia prosecutions forward: all the members of the pool signed prosecutorial orders to avoid exposing any one of them to particular risk, such as the one that had cost judge Gaetano Costa his life.

The Secretary for Justice ( SJ ) is responsible for all prosecutions in Hong Kong, drafting all Government legislation, and advising other policy bureaux and departments of the government on a vast array of legal issues.

Possession of cannabis is an arrestable offense and, in 2003, 53 per cent of all drug confiscations and 70 per cent of all drug-related prosecutions were for cannabis.

In consideration of Miller in May and June 1972, Burger pushed successfully for a looser definition of " obscenity " which would allow local prosecutions, while Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., who by now also believed the Roth and Memoirs tests should be abandoned, led the charge for protecting all " obscenity " unless distributed to minors or exposed offensively to unconsenting adults.

On April 12, 1977, President Jimmy Carter commuted Liddy's sentence to eight years, " in the interest of equity and fairness based on a comparison of Mr. Liddy's sentence with those of all others convicted in Watergate related prosecutions ", leaving the fine in effect.

Hutchinson sums the letter, " The two first and the last sections of this advice took away the force of all the others, and the prosecutions went on with more vigor than before.

The Speedy Trial Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that " n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy.

* The Government would withdraw all prosecutions relating to offences not involving violence.

All investigations by the police are nominally under the direction of the Lord Advocate and local Procurators Fiscal, and all prosecutions are carried out in the name of the Lord Advocate.

Douglas MacArthur and his SCAP staff played a primary role to exonerate Emperor Shōwa ( Hirohito ) and all members of the imperial family implicated in the war such as Prince Chichibu, Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda, Prince Asaka, Prince Higashikuni and Prince Hiroyasu Fushimi from criminal prosecutions before the Tokyo tribunal.

Criminal prosecutions by An Garda Siochana against managers in banks who committed offences are being undermined as CBOI staff were aware of the alleged offences, took no action to stop them and thus provided an arguable defence to those who committed wrongdoing, as they could reasonably claim they were acting with the approval of regulatory authorities at all times.

`` We've been looking for work, but all the ranchers have turned us down ''.

`` You mean you dragged your wife all over hell's half-acre looking for work ''??

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

They blame us for all their troubles.

It poured out of him like an electric current, a feeling that the muscles and nerves of his fine-drawn body were coiling for action, and that that action would be all that he anticipated.

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

`` Soon as we send them on their way and make camp, let's you and me go for a walk down by the Snake -- all by ourselves ''.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

There were no less than six or seven saloons in Ganado, not counting the lower class dives, all vying for the trade of celebrating miners and teamsters.

It was fun for me, all right.

this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

Perhaps her eyes were larger and more of a summer blue for all they had seen and wept that day.

`` I guess he spent the morning getting himself all organized, then headed for home.

`` You think I got you and Artie and Herr Schaffner all the way out here just for the boat ride??

I will make him distributor for all of Florida -- a big market.

Once and for all he'd finish this marine who would not die.

`` If Blue Throat has his way he'll keep us all cooped up in here for days '', he said.

At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.

For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.

Alternate locations exist for all key command centers.

These songs ( practically all Persian music, for that matter ) are limited to a range of two octaves.

First of all, to Italy for a short vacation -- Forte Dei Marmi, a place he loves.

`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.