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

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

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 pointed out that no medical records relied on the June 9 date and March became flustered and confused on the standand even asked a prosecutor to cut him ' some slack ' undermining his credibility.

* Prosecutors naming a host of “ unindicted co-conspirators ” in conspiracy cases to intimidate potential defense witnesses with threats of retaliatory prosecution.

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 stated he was faking insanity, and called more than 60 witnesses to testify that Duran hated government in general, and President Clinton in particular.

Prosecutors charged that defendants had burned records, sent potential grand jury witnesses out of the country, and failed to provide subpoenaed evidence.

' Prosecutors stated this was said to explain the lack of blood on the sofa and surrounding areas where she was supposedly stabbed.

Prosecutors presented evidence that Ribbentrop actively planned German aggression and to deport Jews to death camps.

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

* 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 and others counter that the evidence of her guilt is overwhelming.

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

Prosecutors could find no evidence linking Rothstein to the affair, and he was never indicted.

Prosecutors in Texas did not feel they had enough evidence to convict Watts of murder, so in 1982 they arranged a plea bargain.

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 produced evidence that Donovan staged an elaborate hoax — which included shooting himself in the stomach and then blaming the shooting on his eldest son.

Prosecutors obtained evidence on Farese through a recording device on government informant Reynold Maragni.

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.