The state oil company Rosneft, for example, acquired the main subsidiary of Yukos in December 2004 after a prosecutorial assault against its former chairman, Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, now serving an eight-year sentence in a Siberian jail on charges of fraud and tax evasion that many say were politically motivated.
The final blow came in the form of the trial itself: a judge unwilling to permit race as an admissible area of consideration (or grant the state an opportunity to argue that Zimmerman had engaged in child-abuse); a prosecutorial team that seemed well-intentioned but entirely ill-prepared, and a jury utterly void of racial diversity.
"The Andersen case ushered in an era of prosecutorial timidity," Eisinger writes.
There's a prosecutorial deficit in this country.
This is a poet with a prosecutorial mind: in supple and exact language, she interrogates the world around us.
It was in Chongqing, at Mr. Bo's urging, that Mr. Wang, the deputy mayor and a former cop, began a prosecutorial campaign in 2009 that nailed thousands of well-placed politicians, Triad gangsters and corrupt business executives.
Congress begins hearings into the affairs of Enron without the feature attraction, the collapsed energy trader's former Chairman Kenneth Lay; Lay's lawyer cited a "prosecutorial" atmosphere in canceling the would-be star witness' appearance.
She also had to overcome a prosecutorial disaster early in her tenure.
"I just believe that if I work hard and do well, who knows what the future holds?" But he did not resist taking a thinly veiled jab at Mr. Cruz, who has made headlines in the Senate for a prosecutorial-style questioning of Mr. Obama's defense secretary nominee, Chuck Hagel.
