Prosecutors considered that the detailed letter, if in fact it was actually written by Palmera, could constitute a federal crime, which may be used against him in court.

Prosecutors also said Franzese was not considered by the government to be a cooperating witness.

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 often have great power to procure a desired level of incentive, as they select the charges to be presented.

Prosecutors said that Mitchell and Barzee kidnapped Elizabeth to be Mitchell's " second wife ", held her against her will in the foothills near Arlington Hills until October 8, and then took her to California, where they stayed until March 5.

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

* 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.

* Prosecutors pursuing criminal penalties for selected industry practices in Corporate America when regulatory intervention would be more appropriate.

* Prosecutors using multidefendant trials to get defendants to turn on one another in the courtroom, as judges may be reluctant to allow separate trials in multi-defendant cases.

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

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 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 at the Hague argued that " the indictments were all part of a common scheme, strategy or plan on the part of the accused to create a ' Greater Serbia ', a centralized Serbian state encompassing the Serb-populated areas of Croatia and Bosnia and all of Kosovo, and that this plan was to be achieved by forcibly removing non-Serbs from large geographical areas through the commission of the crimes charged in the indictments.

Prosecutors surmised that Peterson killed his pregnant wife due to increasing debt and a desire to be single again.

Prosecutors requested that Lee be sentenced to seven years in prison and fined $ 347 million.

Prosecutors had demanded a ten-month prison sentence for Hiddink, who was accused of evading € 1. 4 million in Dutch taxes by claiming to be a resident of Belgium from 2002 to 2003.

If they take up this option, they will be posted to other branches of the Singapore Legal Service, for example as Deputy Public Prosecutors at the Attorney's General Chambers or as Assistant Registrars in the Supreme Court Registry.

Prosecutors, in their appeals against the 20-year terms faced by most of the nine, had only called for them to be upgraded to life imprisonment.

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

The Global Prosecutors E crime Network ( GPEN ) was originally developed by the high tech crime division of the CPS ’ s international division together with the Association of International Prosecutors to speed up safe communications between specialists.

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 gathered evidence that high government officials had inquired repeatedly of statistical staff how to get lower inflation numbers, and that in early 2007 managers of the price indexes had excluded products whose prices had risen more than 15 % in the survey and changed price data after it came in from the field workers.

Prosecutors say that el-Hage was in contact in Kenya with Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri, who was al-Qaeda's # 2 member until his death in 1996.

He was chairperson of Joint committee on Human Rights Commission and member of the following committees: Joint Committee on Public Protector, Steering Committee on Public Protector, Steering committee on implementation of the new constitution, Senate rules committee, Senate select committee on Justice and the Judicial Services Commission. On 16 July 1998, he was elected as the first National Director of Public Prosecutions ( a sort of super attorney general ) and by 1999 was an affiliate member of the International Association of Prosecutors.

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 ).

Prosecutors noted that he was of above average intelligence although family members testified he had lifelong trouble expressing emotion and prison records indicate diagnoses of schizophrenia.

Prosecutors say he made his son the head of family operations with a committee of captains to assist him.

Prosecutors sought writs of mandamus and prohibition in the Virginia Supreme Court on the matter, claiming Smiley had exceeded his judicial authority with his ruling.

Prosecutors sought a four-year prison sentence for Horie, who pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors said that Enrique Salinas had been sought for questioning by French police regarding his financial transactions with Raúl Salinas.

Prosecutors sought a 12 year sentence for El Fahtni's suspected involvement in the " Piranha terrorism plot " against politicians and the Dutch Secret Service, AIVD.

Prosecutors had unsuccessfully sought a harsher penalty.

Prosecutors dropped 22 felony charges in return for his cooperation.

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 later dropped all charges against Soong in the Chunghsing Scandal.

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 filed new charges against Khodorkovsky, alleging that he stole 350 million tons of oil, charges which Kommersant described as " Compared with the previous version, only stylistic inaccuracy has been improved, and some of the paragraphs have been swapped.

Prosecutors later dropped charges against Phelps-Roper.

Prosecutors have demanded a 28-year sentence against Seselj for allegedly recruiting paramilitary groups and inciting them to commit atrocities during the Balkan wars of the early 1990s.

Prosecutors declined to re-try Gotti and dismissed the charges against him.

Prosecutors said that the mob allegedly turned against Kobozev because he worked as a part-time security guard at a Brooklyn restaurant from which Nosov was ejected after a fight with a musician.

Prosecutors decide what charges to bring against a defendant, and they can " stack the deck ," which involves over-charging a defendant in order to get them to plead guilty.

Prosecutors concluded their 54-count case against Nichols on October 14, 2008, by showing autopsy photos of his four victims.

Prosecutors launched appeals against the reductions in sentences.

Prosecutors in Italy announced that the case against Lozano qualifies as a " political murder " case, and was thus eligible for trial in absentia.

Prosecutors agreed to drop charges of conspiring to levy war against the United States and conspiring to provide material support for terrorism.