The phrase "authority of prosecutors" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the power or jurisdiction that prosecutors hold in the legal system.
Example: "The authority of prosecutors is essential in ensuring that justice is served in criminal cases."
Alternatives: "prosecutorial authority" or "power of prosecutors".
In a rare ruling limiting the authority of prosecutors to pursue defendants with related charges, the judge, Frederic Block, relied on legal rules related to the constitutional protection against double jeopardy.
His death, in 2008, was one of two suicides by young people in Colorado jails that helped spur a significant change in state law last year by narrowing the authority of prosecutors to charge juveniles as adults and to place them in adult jails, part of a wave of such laws nationwide.
The unanswered question is how each of the 94 U.S. Attorneys offices around the country will implement changes, given the authority of prosecutors to exercise discretion in how they handle their criminal cases.
He was jailed for 56 days for refusing to recognise the authority of the military prosecutor.
In an essay composed in a Cairo prison cell two days after he was detained for refusing to recognize the authority of a military prosecutor, a prominent Egyptian blogger and activist accused the country's military rulers of "insolence".
Mobsters use their names on property documentation to avoid immediate scrutiny of authorities, the prosecutors said.
But legal experts said the behavior of prosecutors and police represented a gross abuse of authority.
Federal authorities allege that Lopez "fixed" the cases without the knowledge of prosecutors or judges.
But the government, including the prosecutors, is under the direct authority of the military council.
341 This is known as 'the prerogative of prosecutorial discretion' or simply 'prosecutorial discretion.' Assistance, guidance, and sometimes direction on the exercise of prosecutorial discretion is provided to individual prosecutors through guidelines found in Crown Policy Manuals under the authority of the federal or provincial Attorney General.
On Tuesday, San Francisco prosecutors filed multiple felony charges against the deputies, saying their actions "undermine the moral authority of the entire criminal justice system".
