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

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 are given discretion about how they conduct their business.

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

As a Senior Law Officer, Baird held the responsibility, together with the Attorney General, for protecting the independence of Prosecutors ; for providing legal advice to over 20 Whitehall departments and for taking action on contempt of court, ( typically when press reporting of criminal cases may inappropriately influence their outcome ).

Prosecutors later alleged that the brothers spent about $ 1 million in their first six months as orphans.

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.

Public Defenders, like Prosecutors and Judges, are admitted to their positions through civil service examination.

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 say loan shark victims obtained home equity loans to pay off debts to their mob bankers.

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

In Australia, all States and Territories ( other than the Australian Capital Territory ) employ Police Prosecutors to work in their summary courts.

Investigators receive dedicated, independent advice from Regional Military Prosecutors throughout the course of their investigations.

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

Prosecutors alleged the two accused suspects murdered Kocis because they wanted to get Corrigan to work for them at their porn film company.

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

Prosecutors launched appeals against the reductions in sentences.

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

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.

* 2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei ; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.

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 ".

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.

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 ).

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.

* International Association of Prosecutors, a non-governmental organisation established by the United Nations in 1995

Prosecutors won the next two times entrapment came before the Court, in United States v. Russell () and Hampton v. United States (), albeit by narrow margins.

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.

The Chief Prosecutor is assisted by 2 Chief Deputy Prosecutors ( premiers avocats généraux ) and a staff of about 22 deputy prosecutors ( avocats généraux ), and 2 assistant prosecutors ( substituts ).

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 stated that they operated independently of the government appointed by President Putin.

" A Bitter Pill – Someone Killed Seven People by Putting Cyanide in Tylenol Capsules – When James Lewis Was Caught for Writing an Extortion Letter, Prosecutors Appeared To Stop Looking for the Killer – Almost 20 Years Later No One Has Been Convicted of the Murders ".

Although Chief Crown Prosecutors are directly accountable for the prosecutions in each area, most of the responsibility for the business administration of the area is overseen by an Area Business Manager.

On 20 December 2004, following a public consultation exercise, the Attorney General published a report " Pre-Trial Witness Interviews by Prosecutors ".

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 were responsible for supervising the observance of laws and legal regulations by public bodies and individual citizens.

Prosecutors told jurors that a 2007 meeting between the defendants had been bugged by police, and revealed that SHAC supported illegal acts that were traced to attacks on people across Britain.

Prosecutors said that Olmert placed himself in a conflict of interest by personally dealing with issues involving business figures represented by his friend and former business partner, lawyer Uri Messer.

Prosecutors also allege Hicks was interviewed by Muhammad Atef, an al-Qaeda military commander, about his background and " the travel habits of Australians ".