Sentence examples for of prosecutorial power from inspiring English sources

— abuse of prosecutorial power".

However, others see the affair as evidence that South Africa's government is strong enough to chase down both corruption and possible abuse of prosecutorial power.

Still, Mr. Johnson's move to charge Mr. Morales under the terrorism law was controversial; civil libertarians on both ends of the political spectrum characterized the legal maneuver as an undue expansion of prosecutorial power.

The convictions against Stevens were obtained through the abuse of prosecutorial power and the wrongful suppression of evidence.

The vast majority of states have failed to enact effective safeguards designed to prevent misuse of prosecutorial power.

Thomas noted that a delegation of prosecutorial power is always to an executive branch and that the tribes are not part of any executive branch of the Federal government.

He was investigated by the governor's office in 1995 when he was accused of abuses of prosecutorial powers, which included threatening to retaliate against the former county commissioner of health services, the chief medical examiner and the presiding officer of the County Legislature.

The prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the United States attorney in Chicago who was named on Tuesday to take over the case, will be armed with a full range of prosecutorial powers, including the authority to convene a grand jury to obtain sworn testimony from officials suspected of having knowledge of the matter.

And few things are more threatening to a true democracy than the abuse of that prosecutorial power".

The evidence includes testimony Mah submitted this year to the state House Commerce Committee on a labor bill and to the state Senate Judiciary Committee on a bill to give the secretary of state prosecutorial power.

For far too long, we have allowed the myth of DNA infallibility to chip away at our skepticism of government's prosecutorial power, undoubtedly leading to untold injustices.