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The court will prosecute perpetrators of war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity.
They had to be worried about the rape allegation, although as Dunne points out in The New Yorker, it doesn't make sense to try to escape a rape charge, which is difficult to prosecute, by committing murder.
Although Holder chided government lawyers for formulating a "sloppy," "overly aggressive" response to the AAPS lawsuit and took Magaziner to task for using ill-defined legalistic language supplied him by White House counsel Vincent Foster, he concluded his investigation by declining to prosecute Magaziner for criminal contempt.
China will prosecute the leaders of Falun Gong . A government order excused most followers saying they had been brainwashed into joining a subversive political organization.
But anything short of that, in terms of evidence or context, is either not illegal or impossible to prosecute.