21.   It describes how the armed forces allowed hundreds of accused sex offenders to escape criminal prosecution or go free despite convictions.

22.   Judge Luttig closely observed and may even have participated in the case against Beazley, whose co-defendants agreed to plea bargains, testified against him and escaped capital prosecution.

23.   Joe Lockhart, the White House press secretary, said earlier this week that Clinton would not pardon himself before he left office to escape prosecution by Ray.

24.   Like many wealthy expatriates, the girls escaped prosecution themselves.

25.   Last year, she was accused of stealing beer from a convenience store, but escaped prosecution by taking part in a county program for first offenders.

26.   Meanwhile, a defiant Hall never confessed and surprisingly escaped prosecution even though his actions gave the Soviets key design information for their first nuclear weapon.

27.   Parliamentary immunity, moreover, attracts candidates who are facing criminal charges, and who want to escape prosecution by becoming lawmakers.

28.   Pataki has accused the court of freeing violent criminals on technicalities and of creating legal loopholes that have helped defendants escape prosecution.

29.   Several of his closest former aides are under arrest, and he himself faces months if not years of legal proceedings to escape prosecution here.

30.   Some bankers whose institutions failed while owing the government money fled the country to escape prosecution.