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

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 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 have asked judges to stop using the term to refer to an unintentional error, and to restrict its use to describe a breach of professional ethics.

Prosecutors could have tried Carter ( and Artis ) a third time, but decided not to, and filed a motion to dismiss the original indictments.

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 speculated that the bag may have contained Simpson's bloody clothes or the murder weapon.

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 have also suggested that el-Hage and Jamaat ul-Fuqra were involved in the murder of Dr. Rashad Khalifa on January 31, 1990 in Tucson.

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 in the German state of Bavaria, home to Bayern, later announced that they did not have enough evidence to justify a full investigation.

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.

Prosecutors theorized that Laci may have been suffocated or strangled in the couple's home.

Prosecutors have indicated that Levine wore a recording device while discussing some of the alleged schemes.

Prosecutors in Ukraine have greater powers then in most European countries.

Under amendments to the Judges Law, Prosecutors Law and the Lawyers Law in 2001, all participants of the SJE must have a university-level education, although not necessarily in law.

will have two rear launching ramps, and will carry two launches, either two Short Range Prosecutors, or two of the larger USCG Long Range Interceptors, or one of each.

The National Security Cutters and the proposed Offshore Patrol Cutters will have two rear launching ramps, and will carry two launches, either two of the smaller Short Range Prosecutors, or two USCG Long Range Interceptors, or one of each.

" Prosecutors have ridiculed the claim and Dr. Deborah Radisch, who conducted Kathleen Peterson's autopsy, says it is unlikely that an owl or any other bird could have made wounds as deep as those on Kathleen's scalp.

Any prosecution brought by the Department for Work and Pensions or a Local Authority should have been subject to the Public Interest Test as set out in the Code of Practice for Crown Prosecutors.

Prosecutors have even hired expert witnesses to explain why particular forms of physical evidence are not relevant to their cases.

Prosecutors in Japan do not generally go to trial unless they have overwhelming evidence of guilt.

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.

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

Prosecutors re-appealed to the Supreme Court of Sweden, which re-instated the sentence of life imprisonment on 2 December of that year.

Prosecutors challenged the judge's reduction of Watson's sentence, and an appellate court agreed that the reduction was inaccurate and probably too lenient.

Prosecutors announced that they were satisfied with the sentence, which is the longest jail term ever given to a former Congressman.

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

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 asked for a 9-year sentence.

Prosecutors have personal conversations with the defendant about their circumstances, in order to arrive at the most suitable and culturally appropriate sentence.

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 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 later dropped charges against Phelps-Roper.

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 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 considered Franzese to be a high ranking member of the Colombo crime family and sought his cooperation against his former organized crime associates.

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 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 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.