Fighting criminal charges--even frivolous ones--soaks up time and money and causes considerable emotional distress.

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Mr. Morris is fighting criminal charges against him related to the probe.

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Mel and some of his law partners had been fighting off a criminal investigation for years at the time we chatted.

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While Mend and other militant groups say they were fighting for a political cause, criminal gangs have taken advantage of the region's instability to make money from ransoms paid by oil companies, and by stealing oil.

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The government of the United States, the moving spirit behind Nuremberg, is today the main opponent to the creation of a permanent international criminal court, and is fighting to win exemption for itself alone from the court's jurisdiction.

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That, she argues, changes everything, since the protections applying to criminal defendants are different to those fighting off civil lawsuits.

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Vigilante groups say they are fighting against violence, kidnapping and extortion by criminal gangs, but they have in turn been accused of breaking the law and abusing the rights of those they detain.

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Why is it that when we look for individuals to head crime fighting agencies, we hire former prosecutors, not criminal defense types, yet virtually every SEC Commissioner seems to have a background representing the very firms he is to regulate?

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Should it sanction a suspected war criminal or look the other way because that person may be key to fighting terrorism?

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