Word: prosecutors
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...When Judge Harry T. Edwards, who serves on the D.C. Circuit, asked Starr, “Are you saying by losing you win?” the former special prosecutor responded, “Thank you! I wish I had said that earlier...
...were sentenced to 15 years for each arson, 10 years for each burglary and six months for animal cruelty for shooting a cow. They will serve a mandatory two years after their federal sentences are over and no other time "as long as they behave themselves," said Alabama state prosecutor Michael Jackson. Said Jackson: "I feel like justice was served. They?ll be in there long enough to know it was a serious crime...
...federal prosecutor who brought the charges seems to agree with Stockman that he truly believed that if he could buy a bit more time, he could turn things around. But that's no defense if you buy time by defrauding people. The pathological optimists who have controlled the federal Treasury for most of the past three decades may also be sincere, but that is also no excuse for the deficits they have produced...
...government's evidence against Father Ly was clear enough. Prosecutors said when police raided Father Ly's diocese office and several homes in Hue over the lunar new year in February, they seized eight computers, nine cellphones and 147 SIM cards as well as 200 kilograms of documents denouncing one-party rule. "Their crime is damaging national security and serving as a tool of overseas reactionary and hostile forces against the government of Vietnam," the prosecutor told the court. The defendants had no lawyers present, but at least one didn't deny the charges. "For the country and the people...
...more, says Solan, we tend to make sense of things by fitting them into stereotypical models, or "prototypes." We have prototypes for the guilty as well as the innocent. In practice, this means a defendant who "looks more guilty than innocent may be convicted, whether or not the prosecutor proves the elements of the crime," explains Solan...