jacana54 (X) Jul 8, 2009:

"he be subjected to" sounds great to me, but you maybe you can wait for a few hours for other answers. Good luck!
Hmm, interesting argument in favour of written procedures!

jules_sieg (asker) Jul 8, 2009:

Gracias, Lucia. This coincides with my opinion, but as I'm not a native speaker of Spanish, and neither the reflexive case nor the subjunctive mood are well-supported in English, I felt it best to verify my own translation, which is "CONSIDERING: That it is public and obvious knowledge that Citizen JOSE MANUEL ZELAYA ROSALES has stopped holding the position of Constitutional President of the Republic, because of which condition the Prosecutor's Request at hand was submitted to this Supreme Court of Justice, in order that he be subjected to the procedure established in the legal penal code regulating criminal prosecution for the highest state officials."

I am concerned about using "subjected to" but I can't come up with anything better. I'm fluent in written Spanish, but the kind of legalese that this involves is not my area of competence. Suffice it to say that the Honduras Supreme Court case documents are so mind-numbingly turgid that reading them out loud to prisoners would be the verbal equivalent of enhanced interrogation techniques.

jacana54 (X) Jul 8, 2009:

just a suggestion I am not a native speaker of English and I don't normally translate into English, but I would like to point out something about the Spanish. "que se le siga" is different to "a que él siga"; in this case the person is NOT going to go through this procedure voluntarily; rather, the prosecutor is asking the judge to subject this former head of state to a proceeding after which they will bring criminal charges against him. So I think that the translation would have to reflect this passive situation in which the former president finds himself.