41.   Some marijuana clubs have reached agreement with local authorities to keep their doors open, regulate their operations and avoid prosecution under state drug-distribution laws.

42.   That plea would be in keeping with an agreement with the government allowing Sisson to avoid prosecution for sending child pornography through the mail.

43.   That testimony would have been part of a deal to avoid prosecution.

44.   The advice Macaro was dispensing, Lavian said at a pretrial hearing, included how to use insanity to avoid prosecution.

45.   The abuse scandal has already prompted some legislatures to close the legal loopholes that allow offenders to avoid prosecution.

46.   The four face Texas charges of capital murder in the death of Irving police officer Aubrey Hawkins and federal charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.

47.   The Justice Department must also weigh the serious risks of violating the rights of those already acquitted to avoid double prosecution for the same act, he said.

48.   The prosecution won when two judges upheld their position that he had been faking insanity for decades to hide his crimes and avoid prosecution.

49.   The unforgiving law may be in reaction to many other cases in which foreigners flee to avoid prosecution, she suggested.

50.   This week, in an agreement with Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, Brown resigned to avoid prosecution.