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

United States President James Buchanan personally requested prosecution of the group ( now referred to by sympathetic parties as " the Rescuers "), and 37 of them were indicted.

At noon on 29 September 1979, the Tribunal delivered its sentences, which were more severe than what the prosecution had requested.

The prosecution also requested the death penalty for those convicted of conspiracy in the case.

The term comes from the U. S. Supreme Court case, Brady v. Maryland, in which the Supreme Court ruled that suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to a defendant who has requested it violates due process.

In June 1997, they requested ballistic tests on the spent cartridges found in the graves ; the ballistic material was reported as " lost " by the prosecution service and did not resurface until February 2000.

On October 26, 2007, Richey's counsel requested that the prosecution provide an account of what they intend to prove at trial, and applied for funds to hire an investigator and a mitigation expert, to be used only if Richey was re-convicted on death penalty charges and his case proceeded to the penalty phase.

Judge Koeltl refused both to impose the 30-year sentence proposed by the prosecution or to waive jail time entirely as Stewart had requested.

* In January, the Justice Department requested the resignation of U. S. Attorney Carol Lam, who led the corruption prosecution of Cunningham.

Before the prosecution announced their sentencing recommendation, Bakir accused the prosecution team ( chief prosecutor Ida Bagus Wiswantanu ) of seeking a bribe to reduce the requested sentence.

Speer requested an explanation from Wolters, and Wolters admitted the censorship by letter in January 1970, saying, " I wouldn't have put it past the Ludwigsbergern < nowiki > war crimes prosecutors </ nowiki > to launch an additional prosecution against you on the pretext that this charge < nowiki > evicting the Jews </ nowiki > was not included in the Nuremberg Indictment.

Under the Framework Decision, member states are precluded from refusing the surrender of their own nationals wanted for the purposes of prosecution, but they may condition the surrender of a requested person on his or her being returned to the issuing state to serve any sentence ultimately imposed.

* the prosecutorial authorities in the executing state decided not to prosecute the requested person, or having begun such a prosecution halted it,

Although the prosecution agreed that all the contacts between the two were public as part of Mohamad Kana ' neh's political activity, the state requested a 6 years sentence.

" The Court allowed the guilty plea only with a simultaneous protestation of innocence as there was enough evidence to show that the prosecution had a strong case for a conviction, and the defendant was entering such a plea to avoid this possible sentencing.

In March 2009, U. S. District Court Judge Panner ruled in favor of the Santo Daime, acknowledging its protection from prosecution under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

In August 2007, the Supreme Court of Liberia allowed the criminal prosecution for this to proceed in the lower courts.

When the prosecution attempted to adduce evidence that this constituted insanity within the Rules, she changed her plea to guilty but on appeal, the Court ruled that she had been merely denying mens rea rather than raising a defence under the Rules and her conviction was quashed.

When Richard Nixon tried to use executive privilege as a reason for not turning over subpoenaed evidence to Congress during the Watergate scandal, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Nixon,, that executive privilege did not apply in cases where a president was attempting to avoid criminal prosecution.

In Nix v. Williams,, the Supreme Court ruled that evidence illegally seized without a search warrant is admissible if the prosecution can prove the evidence would have been found and seized by legal means not based on evidence or information illegally seized.

However, these charges were all dismissed for " no merit " by Supreme Court Judge Kase on December 11, 2009 on the grounds that the prosecution had misled the Grand Jury in the indictment.

As the U. S. Supreme Court has explained, a due process requirement in Britain was not " essential to the idea of due process of law in the prosecution and punishment of crimes, but was only mentioned as an example and illustration of due process of law as it actually existed in cases in which it was customarily used.

The Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court ( ICC ), provides for criminal prosecution of individuals responsible for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

When the Supreme Court, ruling in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, agreed in May 1964 in a 9-0 ruling, deciding in a unanimous decision that Prince Edward County's move violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, county and state supervisors gave in rather than risk prosecution and prison, ending the era of Massive Resistance in Virginia.

On 5 March 2008 the deferred prosecution agreement against Monsanto was dismissed with prejudice ( unopposed by the Department of Justice ) by the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia, thereby indicating that Monsanto had complied fully with the terms of the agreement.

On 18 January 2002, at Truro Crown Court, after the prosecution successfully applied for a Public Immunity Certificate in order to suppress defence evidence ( these are normally issued in cases involving national security ), three members of the group agreed to return the signs and pay £ 4, 500 in compensation to English Heritage and to be bound over to keep the peace.

In 1974, Billy's sentence is overturned by the Turkish High Court in Ankara after a prosecution appeal ( the prosecutor originally wished to have him found guilty of smuggling and not possession ), and he is ordered to serve at least a 30-year life term for his crime.

Cansu Sahin, representing Sarah Ferguson ( as she is referred to in the Turkish Court proceedings ), who was not present, told the Ankara court that his client has apologised and would like to plea bargain with the prosecution.

Furthermore, " n the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, the federal government adopted as policy that allegations of continuing slavery were matters whose prosecution should be left to local authorities only -- a de facto acceptance that white southerners could do as they wished with the black people in their midst.

In towns without a local police chief, investigations became the exclusive responsibility of the Connecticut State Police, while State Prosecutors took over the prosecution of cases, and the court system was flattened by the elimination of courts with criminal venue below the level of the Superior Court.

The High Court and European Court of Human Rights have since ruled that, though the parliament may set minimum and maximum terms for individual categories of crime, it is the responsibility of the trial judge, with the benefit of all the evidence and argument from both prosecution and defence counsel, to determine the minimum term in individual criminal cases.

* 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.

The Court held that both inculpatory and exculpatory statements made in response to interrogation by a defendant in police custody will be admissible at trial only if the prosecution can show that the defendant was informed of the right to consult with an attorney before and during questioning and of the right against self-incrimination prior to questioning by police, and that the defendant not only understood these rights, but voluntarily waived them.

The ' Stockade ' prosecution ended in failure when the Court of Appeal quashed convictions against seven people accused in connection with the alleged diversion of £ 105 million in excise duty ( VAT ).

In 1970 in Ashe v. Swenson, the United States Supreme Court applied it to double jeopardy to limit prosecution for crimes committed at the same time.

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.

Declining to expand the tort of malicious prosecution, a unanimous California Supreme Court in the case of Sheldon Appel Co. v. Albert & Oliker, 47 Cal.

The tort of malicious prosecution was recently reviewed in 2009 by the Supreme Court of Canada in Miazga v. Kvello Estate, and specifically how it applied to public prosecutors in Canada.

For example, the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency regularly inspect banks, and may impose civil fines or refer matters for criminal prosecution for non-compliance.

Lengthy prison sentences for minor offenses such as drug possession cost taxpayers more, remove otherwise productive citizens from society, and impose a fear on society as a whole because of over-policing and excessive prosecution.

The Greek government has tried to impose countermeasures such as the prosecution of those who produce or consume pirated material, with questionable results.