Prosecutors argued that the Mafia spread panic with a campaign of terrorist bombings in mainland Italy in 1993 so that Forza Italia could step onto the political stage in the guise of national saviour.

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

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

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

On February 10, 2010, the Banciao District Prosecutors ' Office announced that during the 2009 CPBL season Tsao had been accepting unsuitable benefits, including wine and sex, from the gamblers and therefore had agreed to throw two CPBL games in August 2009 for them.

On January 12, 2010 a case was filed in the 401st District Court, by Specially Deputized Prosecutors Robert J. Davis and Timothy A. Dunn ( Tad ).

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 in the case say Swartz acted with the intention of making the papers available on P2P file-sharing sites.

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.

Other staff include Associate Prosecutors, who are not qualified lawyers but are specially trained to review and present limited range of cases in magistrates ' courts, paralegal staff who carry out work required to implement decisions and progress existing cases, and administrative staff who deal with tasks such as tracking the progress of cases, liaising with other agencies, matching incoming material to case files and copying and sending out documents.

In the United Kingdom, positions equivalent to a District Attorney are the Chief Crown Prosecutors ( or Crown Prosecutors in the case of Deputy or Assistant District Attorneys ) of the Crown Prosecution Service in England and Wales, the Procurator Fiscal in Scotland, and the Director of Public Prosecutions in Northern Ireland.

Baird and Scotland oversaw the introduction of Associate Prosecutors, extending the powers of less qualified prosecutors to present cases in the Magistrates Court, to save fully qualified solicitors from the need to conduct small case, so freeing them to prepare serious work for the Crown Court.

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 that Butler, the only suspect in the case, repeatedly struck Kellerman in the head with a hammer, then torched Kellerman's Hollywood, California apartment in an attempted coverup.

Prosecutors argued that the legal questions surrounding the invasion of Iraq were irrelevant and that the case should centre only around the official orders given to Kendall-Smith.

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

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 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 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.

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

* Il Bavaglio (" The Gag ") mostly about the Italian politicians ' plans to limit freedom of speech and the investigative means of Italian Prosecutors investigating political corruption

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

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

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

Prosecutors appealed per Connecticut law and won a new trial, in which Palko was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to death.

Prosecutors also agreed to drop an additional charge of assisting offenders in relation to the murder of David Johnson.

The attack was to occur in July 2006 and involved a 21-year-old Lebanese man, identified only as Youssef Mohammed E. H. Prosecutors said Youssef and another man left suitcases stuffed with crude propane-gas bombs on the trains.

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

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

Prosecutors allege that Mr. Hubbard had a long standing rivalry with Democratic State Representative Frank Newkirk Jr. whose father Frank Newkirk Sr. was mayor of Salem at the time.

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 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 showed that Bacanovic had ordered his assistant to tell Stewart that the CEO of ImClone, Samuel D. Waksal, was selling all his shares in advance of an adverse Food and Drug Administration ruling.

Prosecutors claimed that, out of 13 boxes, a single document was relevant to the investigation.

Prosecutors estimated that as much as 90 percent of ZZZZ Best's revenue was fraudulent.

Prosecutors described Routier as a pampered and materialistic woman with substantial debt, plummeting credit ratings, and little money in the bank who feared that her middle class lifestyle was about to end.

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

He was allotted an office in the Federal Secretariat in Kuala Lumpur, together with other Deputy Public Prosecutors.

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.

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

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

Prosecutors contended that she was sexually assaulted.