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Unless you have a precedent, cases that have met the challenge of getting through a legal battle, there is often a reluctance to prosecute a case where the science shows a doping violation but the law may not allow a sanction to be imposed for that offense. – James Ferstle	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is a success for the Serious Fraud Office, which has put immense resources into pursuing this ground-breaking prosecution, seen as a test case to determine whether it can prosecute other allegedly dishonest Libor traders, it is now more likely to do so. – Stephen Rosen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There are precedents, facts that allow us to prosecute them for homicide, six of the accused will be charged as leaders of the attack and one as an accomplice. – Judge Mario Carroza	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The justice department's jurisdiction can reach very far, i guarantee Thomas Ajamie there will be money that touched US banking somehow, which will give the Feds jurisdiction, which will give them the ability to prosecute if they want to and to the full extent that they want to. – Thomas Ajamie	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Do they mean to tell me the sheriff won’t prosecute the person who provided a murderer, illegally, with a gun? – Penny Okamoto	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We've had to make major cuts in our law enforcement and prosecution budgets. We currently don't prosecute 1,800 felonies per year, we don't have the resources to enforce this law. – Jay Bozievich	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Instead of using our guy's record to prosecute a case against him, they put all their eggs in a flimsy guilt-by-association attack that failed miserably, even in this strongly populist district, there were some ads where they spent 26 seconds talking about the Kochs and four seconds on Jenkins, which was fine by me. – Andy Sere	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There is no conflict of interest. I'm going to prosecute. I'm the Baltimore state's attorney. My district includes every city in Baltimore city. A number of crimes that take place in Baltimore city and unfortunately in the district we live. Where is the conflict? – Marilyn Mosby	Found on CNN 9 years ago
He was just a few weeks shy of his 16th birthday. We prosecute murderers at that age all the time. He was no child, there were real children involved here — the fatherless kids of Christopher Speer, Christopher Speer. – Ezra Levant	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
If someone harmed Freddie Gray, we're going to have to prosecute that person, i'm trying to answer your questions as best we can without jeopardizing our case. – Anthony Batts	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Our preference when dealing with suspected terrorists is to capture, detain, debrief and prosecute them, but the fact is ... in some areas of the world, particularly in remote locations where extremists are hiding out, local authorities have limited capacity and, in some cases, limited will to go after these extremists. – White House spokesman Josh Earnest	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Sitting behind a computer, committing what is essentially a cowardly and criminal act will not shield predators from the law or jail. we will continue to be vigilant and investigate and prosecute those who commit these deplorable acts. – Attorney General Kamala Harris	Found on CNN 9 years ago
China generally does not in any case extradite Chinese citizens, so the most likely outcome were this person to be found would be prosecution within China, china will prosecute people within China for crimes they commit against citizens overseas. – Ben Liebman	Found on CNN 9 years ago
There will be less and less impunity. I am absolutely sure evidence will find its way to a prosecutor who will be able to prosecute at least the worst crimes. – Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We told the ambassador to prosecute him in North Korea and update us about the action to be taken against him, we conveyed to him that the government would take serious action if any embassy official is found to be involved in any crimes in future. – Mohammad Shahidul Haque	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I want to believe that these ones are really the ones who conducted (the killing) and that once in a while law enforcement worked professionally and detained real assassins, and did not make a mistake, the key task for investigators is to find and prosecute the ones who ordered this murder. If everything ends with the detention of scapegoats, irrespective of whether they are the real assassins or not, the practice of political assassinations will continue with no doubt. – Ilya Yashin	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They deem the slightest challenging news and every criticism as an insult and either launch an investigation into the subject or prosecute. – Recep Tayyip Erdogan	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's a signal to everybody that's engaged in opposition activities that all bets are off, we're not going to waste time to prosecute you ... pretending that we are respecting the rule of law. We'll simply eliminate you. – Garry Kasparov	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think the attorney general should prosecute people in the District who participate in this under the Anti-Deficiency Act, these people should be very afraid. – Andy Harris	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The court realized its fishy to use a financial fraud statute, carrying up to 20 years in prison, to prosecute a commercial fisherman who otherwise would have been subject at most to a civil crime and the temporary loss of his fishing license. – Lawyer Bradley Bondi	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons, if they aren’t capable of taking that decision themselves and giving that order, then (I hope) that they won’t prosecute people who want to save their lives and the lives of others. – Russian President Vladimir Putin	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I am Jewish, and to think that a person of my religion, the Jewish religion, can make a deal not to prosecute the death of 85 people, most of them Jewish in Argentina ... I have to tell you, it's not easy to live with. – President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I will prosecute these two officers to the fullest extent of the law. Simply put, no one -- not even police officers -- is above the law. – Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We will prosecute anti-Semitic crimes by all legal means, and attacks on mosques will be prosecuted rigorously, because we won't be divided by those using Islamist terrorism to cast suspicion on all Muslims in Germany. – Angela Merkel	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

Unless you have a precedent, cases that have met the challenge of getting through a legal battle, there is often a reluctance to prosecute a case where the science shows a doping violation but the law may not allow a sanction to be imposed for that offense.

– James Ferstle

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is a success for the Serious Fraud Office, which has put immense resources into pursuing this ground-breaking prosecution, seen as a test case to determine whether it can prosecute other allegedly dishonest Libor traders, it is now more likely to do so.

– Stephen Rosen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There are precedents, facts that allow us to prosecute them for homicide, six of the accused will be charged as leaders of the attack and one as an accomplice.

– Judge Mario Carroza

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The justice department's jurisdiction can reach very far, i guarantee Thomas Ajamie there will be money that touched US banking somehow, which will give the Feds jurisdiction, which will give them the ability to prosecute if they want to and to the full extent that they want to.

– Thomas Ajamie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Do they mean to tell me the sheriff won’t prosecute the person who provided a murderer, illegally, with a gun?

– Penny Okamoto

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We've had to make major cuts in our law enforcement and prosecution budgets. We currently don't prosecute 1,800 felonies per year, we don't have the resources to enforce this law.

– Jay Bozievich

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Instead of using our guy's record to prosecute a case against him, they put all their eggs in a flimsy guilt-by-association attack that failed miserably, even in this strongly populist district, there were some ads where they spent 26 seconds talking about the Kochs and four seconds on Jenkins, which was fine by me.

– Andy Sere

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There is no conflict of interest. I'm going to prosecute. I'm the Baltimore state's attorney. My district includes every city in Baltimore city. A number of crimes that take place in Baltimore city and unfortunately in the district we live. Where is the conflict?

– Marilyn Mosby

Found on CNN
9 years ago

He was just a few weeks shy of his 16th birthday. We prosecute murderers at that age all the time. He was no child, there were real children involved here — the fatherless kids of Christopher Speer, Christopher Speer.

– Ezra Levant

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If someone harmed Freddie Gray, we're going to have to prosecute that person, i'm trying to answer your questions as best we can without jeopardizing our case.

– Anthony Batts

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Our preference when dealing with suspected terrorists is to capture, detain, debrief and prosecute them, but the fact is ... in some areas of the world, particularly in remote locations where extremists are hiding out, local authorities have limited capacity and, in some cases, limited will to go after these extremists.

– White House spokesman Josh Earnest

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Sitting behind a computer, committing what is essentially a cowardly and criminal act will not shield predators from the law or jail. we will continue to be vigilant and investigate and prosecute those who commit these deplorable acts.

– Attorney General Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
9 years ago

China generally does not in any case extradite Chinese citizens, so the most likely outcome were this person to be found would be prosecution within China, china will prosecute people within China for crimes they commit against citizens overseas.

– Ben Liebman

Found on CNN
9 years ago

There will be less and less impunity. I am absolutely sure evidence will find its way to a prosecutor who will be able to prosecute at least the worst crimes.

– Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We told the ambassador to prosecute him in North Korea and update us about the action to be taken against him, we conveyed to him that the government would take serious action if any embassy official is found to be involved in any crimes in future.

– Mohammad Shahidul Haque

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I want to believe that these ones are really the ones who conducted (the killing) and that once in a while law enforcement worked professionally and detained real assassins, and did not make a mistake, the key task for investigators is to find and prosecute the ones who ordered this murder. If everything ends with the detention of scapegoats, irrespective of whether they are the real assassins or not, the practice of political assassinations will continue with no doubt.

– Ilya Yashin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They deem the slightest challenging news and every criticism as an insult and either launch an investigation into the subject or prosecute.

– Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's a signal to everybody that's engaged in opposition activities that all bets are off, we're not going to waste time to prosecute you ... pretending that we are respecting the rule of law. We'll simply eliminate you.

– Garry Kasparov

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think the attorney general should prosecute people in the District who participate in this under the Anti-Deficiency Act, these people should be very afraid.

– Andy Harris

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The court realized its fishy to use a financial fraud statute, carrying up to 20 years in prison, to prosecute a commercial fisherman who otherwise would have been subject at most to a civil crime and the temporary loss of his fishing license.

– Lawyer Bradley Bondi

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons, if they aren’t capable of taking that decision themselves and giving that order, then (I hope) that they won’t prosecute people who want to save their lives and the lives of others.

– Russian President Vladimir Putin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I am Jewish, and to think that a person of my religion, the Jewish religion, can make a deal not to prosecute the death of 85 people, most of them Jewish in Argentina ... I have to tell you, it's not easy to live with.

– President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I will prosecute these two officers to the fullest extent of the law. Simply put, no one -- not even police officers -- is above the law.

– Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We will prosecute anti-Semitic crimes by all legal means, and attacks on mosques will be prosecuted rigorously, because we won't be divided by those using Islamist terrorism to cast suspicion on all Muslims in Germany.

– Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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