The purposes of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel are to protect a defendant ’ s right to a fair trial and to assure that our adversarial system of justice functions properly by providing competent counsel as an advocate for the defendant in his contest against the “ prosecutorial forces ” of the state.

Similarly, lawsuits alleging some types of police misconduct and prosecutorial misconduct may often be brought in federal court, and federal courts may enjoin state officials from enforcing state laws found to be unconstitutional in a federal lawsuit, under threat of being held personally in contempt of court for doing otherwise.

During the appeals process State's Attorneys, in many cases, hands all relative prosecutorial materials to a State Appellate Prosecutor who in turn will represent the state in appellate courts with the advice and consent of the State's Attorney.

He was on five years probation with the Medical Board of California resulting from prosecutorial manipulation and conspiracy with local, state, and federal law enforcement vendetta starting in 2000.

Although all charges were previously dismissed in March, 1997 by a Rhode Island Superior Court Judge who also found the Attorney General's office guilty of 10 findings of " egregious prosecutorial misconduct " ( all 10 upheld by the Rhode Island Supreme Court ), in December 1998, he pleaded guilty to state charges of bribery, extortion and racketeering, and was sentenced to a year in prison after he admitted ( in a plea bargain ) accepting $ 250, 000 in exchange for state contracts during his term as Governor.

In the state local districts, prosecutorial duties are performed by local district prosecutors.

# November 28, 1984-Amends Article IV by adding a new section to establish a division of criminal justice and vest state prosecutorial power in a chief state ’ s attorney and the state attorney in each judicial district.

Generally, there is no trial in an appellate court, only consideration of the record of the evidence presented to the trial court and all the pre-trial and trial court proceedings are reviewed — unless the appeal is by way of re-hearing, new evidence will usually only be considered on appeal in " very " rare instances, for example if that material evidence was unavailable to a party for some very significant reason such as prosecutorial misconduct.

Most important, they assumed collective responsibility for carrying Mafia prosecutions forward: all the members of the pool signed prosecutorial orders to avoid exposing any one of them to particular risk, such as the one that had cost judge Gaetano Costa his life.

As such, the Covenant has been rendered ineffective, with the bone of contention being United States officials ' insistence upon preserving a vast web of sovereign, judicial, prosecutorial, and executive branch immunities that often deprives its citizens of the " effective remedy " under law the Covenant is intended to guarantee.

The court repeatedly delayed the retrial for a series of reasons, such as the State's 2008 appeal of a ruling relating to prosecutorial misconduct at the first trial.

Furthermore, as the ballistic knife was originally designed as an offensive weapon, not as a tool intended for use in a trade or business, and given current prosecutorial directives, it may be difficult to establish " reasonable excuse " for such a knife before a UK prosecutor or court, especially as the carrying of a knife in public for self-defence is not acceptable as a " reasonable excuse ".

A notable contemporary example of this tactic was the claim by the defense in the Roger Clemens perjury trial to have the charges against Clemens dismissed due to " prosecutorial misconduct ", i. e. that the prosecution intentionally introduced video evidence which Judge Reggie Walton had ruled inadmissible, for the purposes of getting, in the words of the defense, " a second bite at the apple ", due to the prosecution's alleged poor performance.

In jurisprudence, prosecutorial misconduct is a procedural defense ; via which, a defendant may argue that they should not be held criminally liable for actions which may have broken the law, because the prosecution acted in an " inappropriate " or " unfair " manner.

Criminal prosecuting attorneys and judges are protected from tort liability for malicious prosecution by doctrines of prosecutorial immunity and judicial immunity.

But, they reiterated the failures of the government prosecution: " hatever atomic bomb information their father passed to the Russians was, at best, superfluous ; the case was riddled with prosecutorial and judicial misconduct ; their mother was convicted on flimsy evidence to place leverage on her husband ; and neither deserved the death penalty.

The report alleged that the Chinese authorities were executing a " large but unknown number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience " and removing their internal organs including corneas, hearts, kidneys and livers for sale to foreign nationals in need of healthy organs for transplant.

In May 1618 the Venetian authorities claimed to have uncovered a very serious conspiracy to sack the city and burn the arsenal, summarily executing a number of alleged participants ( all of them French ) but insinuating that the real and secret heads of the plot were Osuna and the Spanish ambassador to Venice, Bedmar.

Alarmed by the OUN-M's growing strength in central and eastern Ukraine, the German Nazi authorities swiftly and brutally cracked down on it, arresting and executing many of its members in early 1942, including Volodymyr Bahaziy, and the writer Olena Teliha who had organized led the League of Ukrainian Writers in Kiev.

In the late 1570s or early 1580s Gentileschi moved to Rome, and was associated with the landscape-painter Agostino Tassi, executing the figures for the landscape backgrounds of this artist in the Palazzo Rospigliosi, and it is said in the great hall of the Quirinal Palace, although by some authorities the figures in the last-named building are ascribed to Giovanni Lanfranco.

The first labeled interpersonal justice, reflects the degree to which people are treated with politeness, dignity, and respect by authorities or third parties involved in executing procedures or determining outcomes.

In a Friday prayer sermon on 29 January 2010 in Tehran, Jannati " praised Iranian judicial authorities for executing two political dissidents " the day before and " urged officials to continue executing dissidents until opposition protests come to an end.

During World War 2, about 7.5 million persons were enrolled in courses organized under two special programs administered by state and local school authorities: ( 1 ) Vocational Education for National Defense, and ( 2 ) War Production Training.

The 1958 town meeting directed town authorities to seek federal and state funds with which to conduct a preliminary survey of a proposed sewage plant with its attendant facilities.

It also contains rules, regulations, orders and decisions created by and related to administrative agencies, such as federal agencies, federal state authorities, urban administrations, but also admission offices and fiscal authorities etc.

The VwVfG basically applies for the entire public administrative activities of federal agencies as well as federal state authorities, in case of making federal law.

A follow-up reported on " extensive " leaks that were more severe than state authorities had previously acknowledged.

All state routes are routinely maintained by Croatian road authorities.

For example, in a unitary state, the constitution will vest ultimate authority in one central administration and legislature, and judiciary, though there is often a delegation of power or authority to local or municipal authorities.

More recently, dacoit Veerappan of Tamil Nadu state evaded authorities for decades until he was shot dead in 2004.

Allen, after being promised land, traveled to the area and began stirring up not just Pennsylvania authorities but also his long-time nemesis, Governor Clinton of New York, by proposing that a new state be carved out of the disputed area and several counties of New York.

During colonial times, the Spanish decided that El Salvador would produce and export indigo, but after the invention of synthetic dyes in the 19th century, Salvadoran authorities and the newly created modern state turned to coffee as the main export of the economy.

The Eritrean authorities declared Eritrea an independent state on 27 April.

The guilds were identified with organizations enjoying certain privileges ( letters patent ), usually issued by the king or state and overseen by local town business authorities ( some kind of chamber of commerce ).

Heads of state generally enjoy widest inviolability, although some states allow impeachment, or a similar constitutional procedure by which the highest legislative or judicial authorities are empowered to revoke the head of state's mandate on exceptional grounds.

President Calvin Coolidge sent Hoover to mobilize state and local authorities, militia, army engineers, the Coast Guard, and the American Red Cross.

Caesar does not explicitly name the tribal authorities prosecuting the case and gathering men to apprehend Orgetorix, but refers to them by the Latin terms civitas (" state " or " tribe ") and magistratus (" officials ").

To the great consternation of church and state authorities, this mere peasant from Iptingen had become the outspoken leader of several thousand Separatists in the southern German duchy of Württemberg.

For example, where a prisoner hanged himself in a cell, he came by his death by hanging and it was not the role of the inquest to enquire into the broader circumstances such as the alleged neglect of the prison authorities that might have contributed to his state of mind or given him the opportunity.

At that time, the British also supported the creation and the training of Palmach, as a unit that could withstand a German offensive in the area, with the consent of Yishuv which saw an opportunity to get trained units and soldiers for the planned Jewish state and during 1944-1945, the most mainstream Jewish para-military organization, Haganah, cooperated with the British authorities against the Lehi and Etzel.

This state lasted just over two years ( 13 December 1917 to 26 August 1920 ) before surrendering to the Bolshevik authorities, who then sought to preserve Russian control under a new political system.

Lithuanian authorities refused to accept the decision, and officially remained in a state of war with Poland until 1927.

At the end of December 2005, authorities estimated that in 2006, the oil profits would be 47 billion ouguiyas ( about US $ 180 million ) and represent a quarter of the state budget, according to RFI.

When independence was proclaimed in 1975, the leaders of FRELIMO's military campaign rapidly established a one-party state allied to the Soviet bloc, eliminating political pluralism, religious educational institutions, and the role of traditional authorities.

After 1871 there appeared resistance among the Masurians towards Germanization efforts, the so called Gromadki movement was formed which supported use of Polish language and came into conflict with German authorities ; while most of its members viewed themselves as loyal to Prussian state, a part of them joined the Pro-Polish faction of Masurians.

According to the Masurian Institute the Masurian members of resistance against Nazi Germany who survived the war, became active in 1945 in the region, working in Olsztyn in cooperation with new state authorities in administration, education and cultural affairs