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- adjective law Not able to be successfully
prosecuted .
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Examples
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But the argument he presents is certainly in tension with the general idea of preventive detention, since all preventive detention is predicated on the idea of unprosecutable "dangerousness," which Lederman rejects as a "constitutionally valid ground" for "noncriminal detention."
OLC’s Marty Lederman: Opponent of Preventive Detention | ATTACKERMAN 2009
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"unprosecutable" because of what has been done with him during the interrogation.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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According to the documents, those still held fall roughly into three groups: the bad, the unprosecutable and the homeless.
Guantánamo Bay files: Obama grapples with fate of last 172 prisoners 2011
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Definition of property rights will not cancel the comparative advantage of unprosecutable violation of said property rights -- his avowal of the still present need court adjucation fails.
Environmental Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Australia had "Mr Sin", he used this tactic and bribes to remain unprosecutable until his death, suing any reporter who came close to exposing him.
Tommy Sheridan is flawed, but still he's a hero | Kevin McKenna 2010
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See New Orleans and their unprosecutable murders for the effect of fear on jurors and triers offact.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Has Holder Decided to Try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a Civilian Court? 2009
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If the Obama administration follows its ideological inclinations, it will compound Bush's errors, releasing even more dangerous but unprosecutable terrorists, and perhaps moving trials to civilian courts, which could compromise national security by forcing the release of classified material and the freeing of terrorists who managed to get acquitted or to have convictions overturned on appeal.
Don't Even Try 2009
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See New Orleans and their unprosecutable murders for the effect of fear on jurors and triers offact.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Has Holder Decided to Try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a Civilian Court? 2009
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New Orleans has a huge number of unprosecuted and unprosecutable murders due solely to the fear of witnesses that they will be killed by the two-bit thugs who did the deed.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Has Holder Decided to Try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a Civilian Court? 2009
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We obviously have overheads, we have legal obligations to fulfil, whereas they are just one man with a lorry who will go along and take the vehicle away - untraceable, unprosecutable.
Love is blind Richard 2006
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