Few prosecutors in the country have been so aggressive.
And few prosecutors are even aware of the challenges.
Very few prosecutors, however, are willing to admit they've made errors.
A few prosecutors admitted to having the odd "there but for the grace of God" moments.
As a result, few prosecutors can read Dutch, the language of Indonesia's most important legal precedents.The police, for their part, are desperately short of equipment.
We must protect the most vulnerable; fine, then why not assign extra penalties for criminals who prey on the poor, children, or — as a few prosecutors have done — the elderly?
Ms. Dickinson spent years fighting to regain legal title, eventually taking her case to Richard Farrell, one of the few prosecutors in the Brooklyn district attorney's office who handles mortgage fraud.
But while the law in all but a handful of states holds that juries can convict based on the testimony of a single, credible witness, very few prosecutors are willing to take a case without more.
For its first few decades, prosecutors rarely invoked the statute.
Few public prosecutors have a background in finance, said Carey R. Dunne, a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell.
