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 ).

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 alleged Samueli and Nicholas granted options to others, including some other top executives but not themselves, to avoid having to report $ 2. 2 billion in compensation costs to shareholders .< ref name =" latimesJune242008 ">

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.

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.

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 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 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.

The High Council of Judges and Public Prosecutors ( HSYK ) is the principal body charged with responsibility for ensuring judicial integrity, and determines professional judges acceptance and court assignments.

Prosecutors eventually charged him with at least 27 murders for profit.

Prosecutors charged that Minkow and Marsch ( listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the complaint ) conspired to extort money from Lennar by driving down its stock.

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 charged that Willingham set the fire and killed the children in an attempt to cover up abuse of the girls.

Prosecutors charged that Olmert had gained $ 92, 164.

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

Prosecutors charged that Vrdolyak and Levine devised a scheme to use Levine's position on the school's board to steer the $ 15 million sale of a school building to Smithfield Properties-a developer with ties to Vrdolyak.

Prosecutors traditionally refrain from commenting outside of the judicial process on the actions of persons not charged with criminal offenses.

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 should never go ahead with more charges than are necessary just to encourage a defendant to plead guilty to a few.

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

BCSS responsibilities include the protection of the Provincial, Supreme, and Appeal Courts of BC ; planning high-security trials ; providing an Intelligence Unit ; assessing threats towards public officials and those employed in the Justice system ; protecting Judges and Crown Prosecutors ; managing detention cells ; transporting prisoners by ground and air ; managing and providing protection for juries ; serving court-related documents ; executing court orders and warrants ; and assisting with coroner's court.

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

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

* Prosecutors using their Peremptory Challenges to remove from the jury anyone with relevant experience in the complex subjects of a trial.

Prosecutors appealed Sarokin's ruling to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and filed a motion with the court to return Carter to prison pending the outcome of the appeal.

Prosecutors say Kerik received about $ 255, 000 in renovations to his Riverdale, Bronx, apartment from a company seeking to do business with the city of New York and concealed the income from the Internal Revenue Service.

Prosecutors in Taiwan could not charge Chen at the time because no victims came forward with a lawsuit.

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.

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

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.

The Code for Crown Prosecutors sets out the basis upon which prosecutions are refused, discontinued or proceeded with.

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.