Regulatory authorities will try to determine if the documents and testimony provide sufficient evidence for a criminal prosecution.
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And yet, the existence of images doesn't immediately lead to a criminal prosecution.
These circumstances simply would not warrant the bringing of a criminal prosecution and a criminal prosecution would most likely fail.
It is possible that the first indication of a criminal prosecution might be a knock at the front door during breakfast.
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"As such, although both Reyes and Lopez's actions are suspicious, they are insufficient to support a criminal prosecution, " the report stated.
However, Lancashire Police said after a number of enquiries it was decided that none of the reported conduct justified a criminal prosecution.
Mr Napier raised a number of issues regarding the order's homes, the right to reply and the possibility of undermining a criminal prosecution.
The purpose of such a voluntary disclosure is to avoid a criminal prosecution of the taxpayer, and to bring the taxpayer into tax compliance with a minimum of monetary penalties.
The men will hear at their next court appearance whether a criminal prosecution against them will go ahead, or whether the case will be dealt with internally by the Prison Service.
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If there is sufficient evident to warrant a criminal prosecution, this president, when he returns to private life, can be indicted, prosecuted, tried, and if convicted, punished like any other citizen.
They declared that no Americans have a right of self-defense against a criminal prosecution, not even when they or their government agents attempt to stop terrorist attacks on the United States.
Meanwhile, Lloyd's List says the issue of which nautical charts the captain of the vessel was using looks likely to be critical to his defence if he does face a criminal prosecution.
On the question of why Abu Qatada had never been prosecuted in the UK, Lib Dem peer Lord Macdonald - director of public prosecutions from 2003 to 2008 - said he had never been shown any evidence to support a criminal prosecution.
Rather, because these programs provided both protection from criminal prosecution and a potentially favorable civil penalty structure, even taxpayers whose conduct did not evidence the willfulness necessary to support a criminal prosecution made voluntary disclosures to attain certainty regarding their civil exposure.
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In the House Judiciary Committee a panel of distinguished former Federal prosecutors testified that a responsible Federal prosecutor would not have brought a criminal prosecution on the basis of the case set out in the Starr Report on which the House Judiciary Committee relied.
On the question of why the Palestinian-born Jordanian had never been prosecuted in the UK, Lib Dem peer Lord Macdonald - director of public prosecutions from 2003 to 2008 - told BBC News he had never been shown any evidence to support a criminal prosecution.
If the President were not involved, if an ordinary citizen were the subject of the inquiry, no serious consideration would be given to a criminal prosecution arising from alleged misconduct in discovery in the Jones civil case having to do with an alleged coverup of a private sexual affair with another woman or the follow-on testimony before the grand jury.
Mr Finucane's son, Michael, said he believed there was never any hope of a successful criminal prosecution.
"The family is aware of a potential criminal prosecution, " the source, who did not want to be identified, said.
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What there will not be is a break-up of Chase or other big banks or a significant criminal prosecution of any individual.
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Its government, whose six-year tenure ended last month, included a number of politicians facing criminal prosecution for involvement in a riot in 1992 when a mosque was demolished at Ayodhya, triggering widespread communal violence.
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Spitzer is relying on a strategy he has used so successfully in the recent past: Find a long-established but shady-sounding practice in an industry, expose it as a scandal, single out a villain and threaten criminal prosecution, flushing out the scapegoat and extracting a sizable settlement.
However, in a criminal case the prosecution needs to show that not only did you know about it but that you were actively participating in it, intending it.
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The Supreme Court laid out a balancing test of sorts: a basic need for executive confidentiality and candor, weighed against the public interests of congressional oversight, a criminal probe or prosecution.
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In other words, the Supreme Court laid out a balancing test of sorts: a basic need for executive confidentiality and candor, weighed against the public interests of congressional oversight, a criminal inquiry or prosecution.
The bottom line is this: If a taxpayer does nothing and is discovered by the IRS, he or she could face criminal prosecution plus a significant civil tax liability.
Because it did not create a criminal offence, no prosecution was ever brought under this provision.
When eliminating the enemy becomes a civic duty, the threat of prosecution by a distant international criminal court offers little in the way of deterrence.
President Bill Clinton left office with immunity from criminal prosecution and a flurry of pardons, including pardons for his half-brother Roger, Patty Hearst and a fugitive oil-trader, Marc Rich.
Sidley Austin as an entity escaped criminal prosecution, but a former partner, Raymond J.
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