prosecution
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To publish “Ulysses” in 1934 without risking prosecution, Random House first had to orchestrate a court case to prove the book innocent of obscenity.
The prosecution was dealt with under the Single Justice Procedure - a fast-track system allowing magistrates to consider low-level criminal cases in private based solely on written evidence.
From BBC
Like a criminal trial with no eyewitnesses, the prosecution of the “Queens of Combat” question relies on a cistern’s worth of circumstantial evidence, which may or may not add up to a case.
A hundreds-strong crowd in Myanmar rallied on Tuesday against the country's prosecution for genocide, a rare public protest permitted by military authorities accused of the atrocities against the Rohingya minority.
From Barron's
"The bar for these prosecutions is rightly high," it told us, and "charging decisions must be approved by lawyers at the highest level of the organisation".
From BBC
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