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.

At trial, the defense team argued that news articles from the time could have been the source for Echols ' knowledge about the genital mutilation, but the prosecution claimed that Echols ' knowledge, which Echols said was limited to what was " on TV ", was nonetheless too close to the actual facts, since there was no public knowledge of drowning or that one victim had been mutilated more than the others.

These cuts would be made to ensure that activities accorded a higher priority, such as peacekeeping operations in the Sinai Peninsula and Iraq, officer cadet training with the New Zealand Defence Forces, and the prosecution of soldiers charged with mutiny, would not be affected, Rabukawaqa said.

On 13 April 2005, Fiji's Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase, rejected criticism from Australia and some other countries over the prosecution and imprisonment of two foreigners charged with committing homosexual acts, which are illegal in Fiji, and said that other countries needed to respect Fiji's independence.

Westerfield, who continued to maintain his innocence, said that the prosecution approached the defense with the suggestion, and his lawyers simply listened to the offer.

However, Northern Ireland Secretary of State Peter Hain said that he was " convinced that at least one prosecution will arise out of today's report ".

Governor Porter's statement of pardon said, " It is represented to me by highly respected citizens of Lycoming County, that this prosecution was instituted more with a view to the accomplishment of political ends than to serve the cause of law and order.

Knight ’ s attorney, David Chesnoff, said the prosecution had " discovery problems and witness problems.

" He said he gave false testimony to protect himself and his wife, Ruth, and that he was encouraged by the prosecution to do so ; " I would not sacrifice my wife and my children for my sister.

By October 2005 these figures had risen to 750 arrested with 22 convictions ; the then current Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, said " the statistics illustrate the difficulty of getting evidence to bring prosecution ".

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.

Chris Keates, the general secretary of National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, said that teachers who have sex with pupils over the age of consent should not be placed on the sex offenders register and that prosecution for statutory rape " is a real anomaly in the law that we are concerned about.

The prosecution, for its part, produced a dozen eyewitnesses who said that the killer resembled Hill, including 13-year-old Merlin Morrison, the victims ' son and brother, who said " That's not him at all " upon first seeing Hill, but later identified him as the murderer.

ABC did not retract the story ( the WABC TV producer insisted that Skaggs had said it was a hoax to avoid prosecution ), possibly because the piece had been nominated for an Emmy Award.

Fuhrman has said that he feels the prosecution abandoned him once the tapes were made public.

He said that he pleaded the Fifth Amendment after he couldn't get the prosecution to call him to the stand for a redirect prior to the tapes being played for the jury.

In November 2010, anticipating the possible indictment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under the Act, critics of that legal strategy said that the broad language of the Act could make news organizations and anyone who reported, printed, or disseminated information from Wikileaks subject to prosecution as well.

The prosecution said that, based on medical testimony, prompt medical attention might have saved her.

The prosecution said Ahmed Abdallah was shot on orders from Denard during a faked attack on his palace on the night of November 26, 1989.

The prosecution presented three psychiatrists who said that Chapman fell short of full psychosis.

" It is just not legally feasible to sustain a prosecution, and not practical after almost 22 years to be trying anyone ", said New Jersey Attorney General W. Cary Edwards.

Various Christian sources including the historian, Marmol state that with his dying breath Aben Humeya declared himself a Christian and said that what he had done was in the prosecution of a family feud.

Hunt eventually spent 33 months in prison at the low-security Federal Prison Camp at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, on a conspiracy charge, arriving there on April 25, 1975, and said he was bitter that he was sent to jail while Nixon was allowed to resign while avoiding prosecution for any crimes he may have committed, and was later fully pardoned in September, 1974, by incoming President Gerald Ford.

Also, it is said that Erasmus chose to remain a Roman Catholic because of a lecture he heard from Savonarola, the Dominican friar who was highly influential in Florence for a time.

Riefenstahl sued a filmmaker, Nina Gladitz, who said Riefenstahl personally chose the extras at their holding camp ; Gladitz had found one of the Gypsy survivors and matched his memory with stills of the movie for a documentary Gladitz was filming.

In Milgram's defense, 84 percent of former participants surveyed later said they were " glad " or " very glad " to have participated, 15 percent chose neutral responses ( 92 % of all former participants responding ).

Nai Khanomtom chose the wives as he said that money was easier to find.

The concept of hell and heaven in Sikhism is metaphorical and is said to be experienced by those who chose ( or not ) to live in the Five Thieves.

The U. S. Director of National Intelligence said in February 2009 that Iran would not realistically be able to a get a nuclear weapon until 2013, if it chose to develop one.

The US Permanent Representative to the UN said that the European / US draft had enough support in the Security Council to be adopted unless Russia chose to object.

It has been said that they chose him because a weak king was better than no king at all and in the absence of any of the Godwinson family he was now the only viable candidate.

She chose, so Wellington said, a woman " of indelicate manners, indifferent character and not very inviting appearance, from a hope that disgust with a wife would secure constancy to a mistress.

At the same time he could not " consider ... without great repugnance ", as he said, that she chose another husband.

In a 1984 interview Morrissey said that he chose The Smiths " because it was the most ordinary name " and because he thought that it was " time that the ordinary folk of the world showed their faces.

After death, he said, he went with others to the place of Judgment and saw the souls returning from heaven, and proceeded with them to a place where they chose new lives, human and animal.

It is said that the prince of Wales ( afterwards Henry V ) witnessed the execution and offered the sufferer both life and a pension if he would recant ; but in Walsingham ’ s words, “ the abandoned villain declined the prince ’ s advice, and chose rather to be burned than to give reverence to the life-giving sacrament.

It is also said that he chose this time to knight his son, Edward.

Once promoted to Captain, Weygand chose not to attempt the difficult preparation to the Advanced War College (' Haute Ecole de Guerre ') because of his desire, he said, to keep contact with the troops.

In 1985's Super Mario Bros., the Koopa Troopa was originally planned to be the only enemy in the game, however, the developers chose to add more enemies after people said that the Koopa Troopas were way too tricky to defeat due to it being a two-step process.

Murphy disliked the part, explaining he wanted to play an alien or a Starfleet officer, and chose to make The Golden Child — a decision Murphy later said was a mistake.

Brahma agreed so long as Andhaka named the circumstances of his own death, to which Andhaka said he would die if he ever chose to marry a woman who is like a mother to him.

In another documentary, Orwell Rolls in His Grave, one of the responders, Charles Lewis of the Center for Public Integrity said that his organisation brought this controversy on April 4, 2000, 7 months before the 2000 U. S. presidential election, but the mainstream media " chose not to report the story ".

Gore had argued for a new recount that would pass constitutional muster, but the Court instead chose to end the election, asserting that “ the Florida Supreme Court has said that the Florida Legislature intended to obtain the safe-harbor benefits of 3 U. S. C. § 5 .” This last assertion by the 5 – 4 Bush v. Gore majority has proven very controversial.

Woods said that she chose the white house that had been abandoned in Sibley because " I love this part of the country.

Many said this was to be Eastwood's last film as director and actor, but he chose to keep directing and he quit acting in his own films with the 2008 film Gran Torino.

Walt once said that he was inspired by a pet mouse he once had at the old Laugh-O-Grams studio, but more commonly said that he chose a mouse because a mouse had never been the central character of a cartoon series before.