11.   The current law allows federal prosecution of hate crimes under limited circumstances.

12.   The United States supports the position that prosecutions can be allowed only if a home country consents.

13.   This would allow the prosecution of members of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, which is dominated by Tutsi, for massacres and the killings of civilians.

14.   Those included his unusual decision to allow the prosecution to reopen its introductory remarks.

15.   Prosecutors have interpreted family protection laws as allowing prosecutions of deadbeat ex-husbands.

16.   A new British law allows prosecution of British Nationals in the U-K for sex offenses they commit abroad.

17.   Although Lithuanian law allows the prosecution of war crimes suspects in absentia, prosecution lawyers agreed that the trial should not continue without Lileikis.

18.   Although Lithuanian law allows the prosecution of war crimes suspects in absential, prosecution lawyers agreed that the trial should not continue without Lileikis present.

19.   Another option would be an international tribunal carried out in a country with laws that allow prosecution for crimes against humanity committed outside the nation.

20.   But each time, critics, including government commissions and independent scholars, demanded that Congress change laws to allow the prosecutions.