Word: prosecutorã
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...such a television series did exist, this year’s Christmas episode would be a bleak one for our protagonist. The charges are still pending, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor??€™s Office, with grand jury action set for next month. And, of course, there’s no Harvard life in which to find solace, to lose oneself in as the wheels of justice turn. Randy Gomes and Suzanne Pomey, the two Harvard students charged with embezzling funds from the Hasty Pudding last year, at least had that...
Mughogho said he estimates about 80 percent of e-mails and letters on his behalf received by the U.S. Embassy and by the public prosecutor??€™s office in Malawi came from people associated with Harvard...
Allowing Gomes and Pomey this escape would be a judicial farce—a denial of the basic idea that felony larceny carries long-term consequences. The punishment for their admitted theft must be more permanent than repayment of the stolen funds and two years’ probation. The prosecutor??€™s recommendation that both receive time in prison and perform community service, in addition to fully compensating the Pudding, is far more reasonable. If their guilty pleas are accepted, Gomes and Pomey should be punished like other felons convicted of larceny—they deserve neither special treatment...
...unfounded fear that a rogue prosecutor will try its soldiers capriciously. In reality, the U.S. has nothing to worry about thanks to the ICC’s statute providing a series of three checks and balances, the ability of the U.N. Security Council to overrule a prosecutor??€™s decision and individual states’ sovereign maintenance of jurisdiction should they prefer to try an individual themselves. Yet the U.S. has almost threatened an all-out invasion of the Netherlands if an American is ever brought before...