Sentences with phrase «under threat of prosecution»

On May 2nd, the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan held that the federal government does not breach section 8 of the Charter by collecting census information under threat of prosecution.

The state comptroller had recently been forced out of office over similar charges under the threat of prosecution by the Albany County D.A. (The same D.A. ultimately conducted two investigations of Troopergate.

In some neighborhoods, one in three young black males is working as a «snitch,» forced to testify against friends and family under the threat of prosecution.

Not exact matches

In both civil and criminal settings, if the person is given immunity eliminating the threats of criminal prosecution, then they can be compelled to give testimony (though it gets sticky when the same conduct can be classified as an offense under both state and federal law).

(A national security letter is a secret order that may contain a «nondisclosure» requirement, preventing the person who received the national security letter from ever talking about it for the rest of their life under threat of criminal prosecution.)