The prosecution revealed Huhne had a history of speeding and was in danger of losing his licence, having already accrued nine penalty points.
The irony of all the ruckus about the recent leaks is that the Obama administration, which came to power promising more government transparency, has been the most aggressive administration in U.S. history in its prosecution of alleged leaks to the press.
When the case eventually went to trial, it was considered the largest tax fraud prosecution in U.S. history (well, after this one fell apart).
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It was introduced into evidence in the successful 2008 prosecution of the first group of defendants in the Holy Land Foundation conspiracy, the largest terrorism-financing prosecution in the nation's history.
As the tension and the heat inside the overcrowded courtroom built up, Magistrate Desmond Nair made his painstaking way through a summary of the evidence and arguments - with the occasional digression into legal history - without seeming to give prosecution or defence a particular reason for confidence.
The MB's own documents - including a number of those introduced into evidence by the Justice Department in the largest terrorism financing trial in U.S. history, the Holy Land Foundation prosecution - make clear that this international Islamist organization seeks to impose its politico-military-legal doctrine of shariah on our country.
She said it was "a waste of time" for the prosecution to try to build a case around the history of domestic violence in Simpson's marriage to Nicole.
In explaining his decision, Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals chided the prosecution for remaining "unconstitutionally silent" on the "history of misconduct" of its key witness, a Phoenix police detective.
Indeed, if he is not convicted, history books may well judge the government's prosecution of white-collar crime during the bull-market '90s as a failure.
Opening her case for the prosecution, Yvonne Coen QC, told the court Ms Dent had a history of drug use going back many years and was being prescribed methadone to try to break her addiction to heroin.
"This prosecution is one of the largest resolutions of export violations with a major defense contractor in the Justice Department's history, " Fein said.
Co-counsel for John Mitchell in the Watergate prosecution, Cacheris also represented convicted CIA spy Aldrich Ames in perhaps the worst espionage case in U.S. history.
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