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 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 used this to show premeditation and secure the death penalty.

Prosecutors said that he took $ 200, 000 from a 1987 inaugural account and used it to buy marble showers and lawnmowers.

Prosecutors contended that the two men had unjustly compensated themselves and used the company jet for non-business-related matters.

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 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 pursuing criminal penalties for selected industry practices in Corporate America when regulatory intervention would be more appropriate.

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 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 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 alleged that the conspiracy to import workers dates back to 1994 when plant managers began to find it difficult to fill positions with " cheap legal help ".

Prosecutors also " showed the jury a videotape of a white mob beating local civil rights leader Fred Shuttlesworth when he showed up to register his children at the all white Phillips High School.

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

* Prosecutors using multidefendant trials to get defendants to turn on one another in the courtroom, as judges may be reluctant to allow separate trials in multi-defendant cases.

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.

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

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 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 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 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.

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

Prosecutors alleged that Carr never purchased the steers.

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

Prosecutors alleged that Monschke, who has the Volksfront emblem tattooed on his chest adjacent to a swastika, instigated the attack in an effort to establish himself with higher-ranking members of Volksfront.

Prosecutors claimed the transactions were in furtherance of an alleged bribe paid to a " go-between " in order to secure Smith's appointment.

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

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