Sentence examples for prosecutorial decision from inspiring English sources
It was a shocking example of politicians dictating a prosecutorial decision.
Logic suggests that their purpose is to position the independent counsel for a prosecutorial decision next January.
But Mr. Gansler said there was still an open debate about which jurisdiction should go first, adding, "Politics should have no part whatsoever, ever, in any prosecutorial decision".
Mueller found a list of actions under the part of his investigation into obstruction of justice but did not reach a prosecutorial decision.
Second, Starr had unreviewable discretion, while any investigative or prosecutorial decision Mueller makes may be reviewed and disapproved by the attorney general.
Another case on which a prosecutorial decision is pending here is the death last year of a young hotel clerk after a brutal interrogation session by British troops in Basra.
"I am concerned that congressional access to prosecutorial decision-making documents of this kind threatens to politicize the criminal justice process," the president said then.
Todd Lochner, an assistant professor at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore., who has written about prosecutorial decision-making in obscenity cases, said that Ms. Buchanan had established herself as the nation's foremost obscenity prosecutor.
Mulholland said the advocate general had no role in the investigation or prosecution of crime, and added that it would be "unfortunate" if Cable's intervention were to be "construed as attempted interference with independent investigation and prosecutorial decision-making by the law officers".
Dreeben said it would be extraordinary overreach "to pull back the curtain" of internal "personnel" and prosecutorial decision-making by an "alive and awake" deputy attorney general actively supervising a special counsel who is "not on a frolic and on a detour" from investigating what he was charged to do.
He said the decision effectively allowed "race-based prosecutorial decisions".
