In towns without a local police chief, investigations became the exclusive responsibility of the Connecticut State Police, while State Prosecutors took over the prosecution of cases, and the court system was flattened by the elimination of courts with criminal venue below the level of the Superior Court.

* Prosecutors causing depositions in a related civil trial which were likely to yield exculpatory evidence to be stayed until a criminal trial concludes without the benefit of that exculpatory evidence.

As a Senior Law Officer, Baird held the responsibility, together with the Attorney General, for protecting the independence of Prosecutors ; for providing legal advice to over 20 Whitehall departments and for taking action on contempt of court, ( typically when press reporting of criminal cases may inappropriately influence their outcome ).

Prosecutors asked why Sheppard hadn't called out for help, why he had neatly folded his jacket on the daybed in which he said he'd fallen asleep, and why the family dog — which several witnesses had testified ( in the first trial in 1954 ) was very loud when strangers came to the house — had not barked on the night of the murder ( recalling the famous Sherlock Holmes remark about " the curious incident of the dog in the night-time ," with its implication that the dog knew the criminal ).

In his argument in favor of the bill, Senator Leahy stated, " Prosecutors can rarely justify bringing criminal charges, and copyright owners have been left to fend for themselves, defending their rights only where they can afford to do so.

The General Prosecutors office dropped the criminal investigation regarding partisan activities of Arad in September 2008 citing lack of collected evidence as the main cause.

Prosecutors traditionally refrain from commenting outside of the judicial process on the actions of persons not charged with criminal offenses.

* 2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei ; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.

Previous Prosecutors have been Ramón Escovar Salom of Venezuela ( 1993 – 1994 ), Richard Goldstone of South Africa ( 1994 – 1996 ), Louise Arbour of Canada ( 1996 – 1999 ), Eric Östberg of Sweden, and Carla Del Ponte of Switzerland ( 1999 – 2007 ), who until 2003, simultaneously served as the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda where she led the OTP since 1999.

Prosecutors were able to retry Nosair for the murder because the federal indictment includes the killing as part of the alleged terrorist conspiracy.

1961-1968: A Manual for Federal Prosecutors.

* Prosecutors cannot withhold evidence from counsel for the defendant ; to do so results in mistrial or dismissal.

Prosecutors claimed there was an international market for such videos, and that Korzen and Mahn intended to sell their film.

The High Council of Judges and Public Prosecutors ( HSYK ) is the principal body charged with responsibility for ensuring judicial integrity, and determines professional judges acceptance and court assignments.

Prosecutors were so impressed with his performance that they ultimately lobbied for an even shorter sentence for Fastow.

Prosecutors said the attack was in retribution for a failing grade.

Prosecutors dropped the charges for the cigarette hijacking.

BCSS responsibilities include the protection of the Provincial, Supreme, and Appeal Courts of BC ; planning high-security trials ; providing an Intelligence Unit ; assessing threats towards public officials and those employed in the Justice system ; protecting Judges and Crown Prosecutors ; managing detention cells ; transporting prisoners by ground and air ; managing and providing protection for juries ; serving court-related documents ; executing court orders and warrants ; and assisting with coroner's court.

Prosecutors said that from December 1989 through 1990, Ward received about $ 5, 000 a month for a total of $ 57, 500, from Luckey Police Products, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based company that was a major producer and supplier of pepper spray.

Prosecutors eventually charged him with at least 27 murders for profit.

Prosecutors did not try Routier for the death of her older son, holding his murder in reserve in case Routier was acquitted in the first murder trial or her conviction was overturned on appeal.

" A Bitter Pill – Someone Killed Seven People by Putting Cyanide in Tylenol Capsules – When James Lewis Was Caught for Writing an Extortion Letter, Prosecutors Appeared To Stop Looking for the Killer – Almost 20 Years Later No One Has Been Convicted of the Murders ".

Although Chief Crown Prosecutors are directly accountable for the prosecutions in each area, most of the responsibility for the business administration of the area is overseen by an Area Business Manager.

The Code for Crown Prosecutors sets out the basis upon which prosecutions are refused, discontinued or proceeded with.

Paragraph 4. 12 of The Code for Crown Prosecutors states: " A prosecution will usually take place unless the prosecutor is sure that there are public interest factors tending against prosecution which outweigh those tending in favour, or unless the prosecutor is satisfied that the public interest may be properly served, in the first instance, by offering the offender the opportunity to have the matter dealt with by an out-of-court disposal.

Prosecutors selected Haywood as the first of the three defendants to stand trial, thinking him the most vulnerable.

Prosecutors tend to be strongly motivated by conviction rates, and " there are many indications that prosecutors are willing to go a long way to avoid losing cases, that when prosecutors decide to proceed with such weak cases they are often willing to go a long way to assure that a plea bargain is struck ".

Prosecutors used " Michelle Remembers " as a guide when preparing cases against alleged Satanists. Michelle Remembers, along with others portrayed as survivor stories, are suspected to have influenced later allegations of SRA and the book has been suggested as a causal factor in the later epidemic of SRA allegations.

Prosecutors dropped their case against Steffi Graf in 1997, when she agreed to pay a fine of 1. 3 million Deutsche Marks to the government and an unspecified charity.

Prosecutors are protected from civil liability even when they knowingly and maliciously break the law in order to secure convictions, and the doctrine of harmless error is used by appellate courts to uphold convictions despite such illegal tactics, thus giving prosecutors few incentives to comply with the law.

Prosecutors in several states ( including Minnesota, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Utah and Wisconsin ) have charged parents with manslaughter whose children died while bed-sharing when the parents were under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Prosecutors alleged that the conspiracy to import workers dates back to 1994 when plant managers began to find it difficult to fill positions with " cheap legal help ".

Prosecutors also " showed the jury a videotape of a white mob beating local civil rights leader Fred Shuttlesworth when he showed up to register his children at the all white Phillips High School.

Prosecutors argued that a woman on the verge of suicide would not have been in the right state of mind to cut through steel netting.

Prosecutors said al-Arian would serve the balance of 19 months, and then be deported.

If there is sufficient evidence to prosecute, Crown Prosecutors must still decide whether a prosecution would be in the public interest.

Prosecutors offered Thomas Reedy a twenty year prison term and Janice Reedy a five year term if they would plead guilty, but the Reedys refused the plea deal, believing they could not be held legally responsible for the content of third party websites.

Prosecutors would end up with the real control over defendants ' sentences, since prosecutors ultimately make the decisions regarding how to charge the case.

Prosecutors claimed Credit Suisse blatantly ignored Brazilian law, while Credit Suisse rebutted that they hold high ethical standards and would defend their employees in court.

Prosecutors argued that the Mori Building officials did not implement safety measures proposed after previous incidents because they would detract from the tower's entrance appearance.

Prosecutors said the felony charge would be dismissed if Jones completes the drug program.

In January 2010, Federal Prosecutors announced that they would no longer seek to prosecute Gotti for those charges.