He estimated that there had been barely a dozen successful murder prosecutions.
Hunt's character repudiates the idea of universal abortion but is campaigning to protect women from fetal murder prosecution.
Fortunate, because if he hadn't discovered that, Jackie herself might have had to hire him and be his newest client in a murder prosecution.
The unit has also assisted district attorneys in murder prosecutions throughout Colorado, particularly in rural areas.
"This looks pretty clear," Professor Orentlicher said, and a murder prosecution could succeed.
If successful, the private murder prosecution would have set a precedent for opening other cases in which policemen or soldiers had killed protesters.
Otherwise, every accidental death, even during medical treatment in good faith, could become grounds for a murder prosecution and a prison sentence.
The Franklin-Lipsker case was the first murder prosecution in the nation based on a repressed memory of a crime.
For this reason, the year-and-a-day rule served as a kind of limitation period on murder prosecutions.
Destroying a murder prosecution for your own purposes isn't immaterial, Kat, it's criminal, even if the suspect wasn't guilty.