Of that small slice, just 17% of prosecuted cases brought jail time--and the average term of incarceration was just six months.
All of these pardons stunned and outraged the U.S. Attorneys who prosecuted these cases.
McLelland, elected DA in 2010, said his office had prosecuted several cases against racist gangs, who have a strong presence around Kaufman County, a mostly rural area dotted with subdivisions, with a population of about 104, 000.
The Supreme Court has taken four occasions to review cases prosecuted under the Smith Act.
But in practice this does not apply to civil cases, or to cases prosecuted in different systems (ie, federal or state) a distinction often misunderstood, says David Aufhauser, an attorney with Williams and Connolly and a former Treasury official.
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"To get courts to take these cases seriously can be a real challenge, " said Mr. LaBahn, who previously prosecuted animal-cruelty cases in California.
In the last full fiscal year, we prosecuted more human trafficking cases than ever before.
He said his department over the past year prosecuted more voting-rights cases than in any prior year.
Since the law was introduced in March, 89% of all cases have been prosecuted with 83% resulting in conviction.
Those cases may be prosecuted with a view to a jail sentence rather than the imposition of a civil penalty.
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The Obama administration has prosecuted six leak-related cases.
He said the interim guidelines, which come into force immediately, clarified which kinds of cases should be prosecuted and which would go ahead only after a rigorous assessment whether it was in the public interest to prosecute.
Campaigners have warned that the UK could be taken to the European Court of Human Rights because many cases are not being prosecuted.
From 1986-1992, Spitzer was an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, rising to become chief of its labor racketeering unit, where he prosecuted organized crime and political corruption cases.
T-visas will be available each year to victims who provide information to the authorities, allowing them to live and work in America while their cases are investigated and prosecuted.
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However, many cases have still been successfully prosecuted with compromised complainants.
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And worse, the false witnesses that make the accusations are rarely, if ever, prosecuted - though in a multitude of cases they have recanted and have stated under oath that they were induced to testify falsely.
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But even when this process is complete, there may be a number of people who cannot be prosecuted for past crimes, in some cases because evidence may be tainted, but who nonetheless pose a threat to the security of the United States.
Such a posture permits many cases to be developed locally and prosecuted by folks who know the turf.
"Most federal cases are well founded and ethically prosecuted, " says John Barrett, a former U.S. prosecutor who teaches law at St.
DC, firm whose lawyers prosecuted the lion's share of the cases against Iran, is now lobbying hard to extend last year's law to cover victims of terrorism in Kenya and the Middle East allegedly connected to Mr bin Laden.
But some banks remain unco-operative: in Geneva, only a tenth of the money-laundering cases brought since 1990 have been successfully prosecuted, partly because banks failed to provide crucial information.
According to Douwe de Boer, former head of the Dutch anti-doping laboratory - who has supported Contador's defence - other cases with higher amounts of the drug have not been prosecuted.
Mrs Arroyo had her predecessor as president, Joseph Estrada, prosecuted for corruption, and the country's special court for trying graft cases, the Sandiganbayan, sentenced him to life in prison.
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There have been documented cases of FGM but no-one in the UK has been successfully prosecuted.
In November Lord Advocate Frank Mullholland QC said 89% of cases reported under the Offensive Behaviour and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act had been prosecuted, with a conviction rate of 83%.
Although the FBI referred more than 76, 000 such cases to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in 2010, Justice Department attorneys prosecuted just 44 of them.
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