In her speech at the 2000 Conservative conference, she called for a zero tolerance policy of prosecution, albeit with only £ 100 fines as the punishment, for users of cannabis.

The prosecution called Dale W. Griffis, a graduate of Columbia Pacific University, as an expert in the occult to testify the murders were a Satanic ritual.

Should the court decide that there is probable cause, a formal charging instrument ( called the information in some jurisdictions ) will issue ; and the prosecution will continue.

In a court proceeding, a witness may be called ( requested to testify ) by either the prosecution or the defense.

The prosecution had earlier called for Manuela Kleinszig to be cleared, stating that there was insufficient evidence against her, but it had sought life sentences for the four men.

There therefore seemed to be no means by which an archon could be called to account for breach of oath unless the Areopagus favoured his prosecution.

On November 16, when Wyatt was called to the stand and began to read his statement, the prosecution vociferously objected.

The prosecution immediately filed a new warrant for murder charges, issued by Justice Smith, but Judge Lucas quickly dismissed it, writing that new evidence would have to be submitted before a second hearing could be called.

In Anglo-American law, the party bringing a criminal charge ( that is, in most cases, the state ) is called the " prosecution ", but the party bringing most forms of civil action is the " plaintiff " or " claimant ".

In Gotti's defense Cutler called bank robber Matthew Traynor, a would-be prosecution witness dropped for unreliability, who testified that Giacalone offered him drugs and her panties as a masturbation aid in exchange for his testimony ; Traynor's allegations would be dismissed by Judge Nickerson as " wholly unbelievable " after the trial, and he was subsequently convicted of perjury.

* An essay written around 160 AD, attributed to Lucian, a mock legal prosecution called The Consonants at Law — Sigma v. Tau in the Court of Seven Vowels contains a reference to the cross attribution.

Miranda was retried, and this time the prosecution did not use the confession but called witnesses and used other evidence.

Over the next six weeks, the prosecution called a large number of witnesses, none of whom testified to have seen Angélique set the fire, but all of whom claimed they were certain that she had done it.

After practicing corporate law in New York, he served in the Nixon Administration as the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1971 to 1973 ; this position led to his being called as a prosecution witness against former Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans in an influence-peddling case stemming from international financier Robert Vesco's $ 200, 000 contribution to the Nixon reelection campaign.

This element, commonly called the English Rule, states that, in addition to fulfilling all other malicious prosecution elements, one must also prove injury other than the normal downside of being sued.

Some people ( called anonyms ) choose to be anonymous, that is, to hide their true names, for fear of governmental prosecution or social ridicule of their works or actions.

James Marsh, a chemist working at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich was called by the prosecution to try to detect its presence.

According to the Washington Post, the process of prosecution of Rwandans in Belgium for crimes committed in the violence were set in motion by Martine Beckers, a Brussels resident, whose sister Claire called her to tell her of being attacked by soldiers, who soon after killed her, her family, and 10 other villagers who were unable to reach a United Nations peacekeepers ' compound.

In 1768 he was a delegate to the provincial convention which was called to meet in Boston and along with Samuel Quincy conducted the prosecution of Captain Thomas Preston and his British soldiers following the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770.

The prosecution asserts Sampson called familiar spirits and resolved her doubtful matter.

In addition, he wanted to abolish the prosecution of witches, and when speaking on those who invoke demons ( which he called spirits ) he carefully used the word exorcist.

Bradley refused to cooperate with prosecutors, and neither prosecution nor defense called him as a witness.

Eight different handwriting experts ( Albert S. Osborn, Elbridge W. Stein, John F. Tyrrell, Herbert J. Walter, Harry M. Cassidy, Wilmer T. Souder, Albert D. Osborn, and Clark Sellers ) were called by the prosecution to the witness stand, where they pointed out similarities between words and letters in the ransom notes and in Hauptmann's writing specimens ( which included documents written before he was arrested, such as automobile registration applications ).

" Mongibeaux thereupon called the first of the prosecution witnesses, but they had not expected to give evidence so soon and none were present.

In 2010 Alcatel-Lucent agreed to pay a fine of US $ 137. 4 million to avoid US prosecution for alleged bribes paid in several countries, including Kenya, Taiwan and Costa Rica.

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

The right to confront and cross-examine witnesses also applies to physical evidence ; the prosecution must present physical evidence to the jury, providing the defense ample opportunity to cross-examine its validity and meaning.

Lucas ' corroborated Addie Bourland's testimony that Billy Clanton was standing throughout the fight, which contradicted prosecution witnesses who maintained he went down immediately after being shot at close range in the belly.

He noted that doctor who examined the dead Cowboys established that the wounds they received could not have occurred if their hands and arms had been in the positions that prosecution witnesses described.

Calley's original defense that the death of the villagers was the result of an accidental helicopter or aerial airstrike was quashed by the few prosecution witnesses.

His main defense strategy during the prosecution was to attack the credibility of Giacalone's witnesses by discussing their crimes committed before their turning states '.

The principal prosecution witness, a servant of one of the accused, made claims that were easily rebutted by defense witnesses.

In various ways all of the human components – the counsels for defense and prosecution, the defendant and his wife, and the witnesses – have different positions on what is right or wrong, and varying perspectives on integrity, justice, morality and ethics.

Each of Parisi's murder trials ended with an acquittal, as the judges directed a verdict of not-guilty due to the lack of corroborating evidence, since the chief witnesses for the prosecution were accomplices.

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.

He collected and arranged evidence to prove the charges against him, bore testimony himself in support of many of them, hunted up witnesses against the archbishop, and assisted the counsel for the prosecution in every way.

* Prosecutors naming a host of “ unindicted co-conspirators ” in conspiracy cases to intimidate potential defense witnesses with threats of retaliatory prosecution.

The prosecution presented several witnesses who put Vanzetti at the scene of the attempted robbery.

Rothschild did not testify in his own defense, and his lawyers made mincemeat of prosecution witnesses.

Larner denied this second argument as well, but the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously held that the evidence of various deals made between the prosecution and witnesses Bello and Bradley should have been disclosed to the defense before or during the 1967 trial as this could have " affected the jury's evaluation of the credibility " of the eyewitnesses.

As a result, Khodorkovsky and Lebedev were convicted of embezzlement from the oil companies and some of the oil companies ' minority shareholders acted as witnesses for the prosecution during the trial.

Two authors and three Sioux were called as defense witnesses, mostly focusing on the historical ( and more recent ) injustice against the Sioux on the part of the U. S. government, shocking the prosecution.

Kunstler focused on pointing out that all the other prosecution witnesses were testifying under reduced-sentencing agreements and called five prison inmates as defense witnesses ( Miller called none ), who testified that other prisoners hit the guard.

His defence had looked strong as eye witnesses refused to testify due to fear of reprisals, when Alison retracted her testimony and became the prosecution's main witness ; this not only removed Bronson's alibi but also gave the prosecution all the evidence needed to win the case.