The mantra of the prosecutorial and law enforcement establishments that "if you are old enough to do the crime, you are old enough to do the time" has been warmly embraced by jurors for decades.
Additionally, we believe that scarce federal resources – law enforcement, prosecutorial, judicial, and penal – should not be expended in opposition to the wishes of the voters of Colorado and Washington, given the responsibility of all federal officials to find ways to withhold unwise or unnecessary expenditures.
White House and immigration officials said they would exercise "prosecutorial discretion" to focus enforcement efforts on cases involving criminals and people who have flagrantly violated immigration laws.
Mr. Medvedev noted changes in legislation requiring prosecutorial oversight of police enforcement of financial crime, apparently intended to curb widespread police corruption.
The White House describes that policy as "an exercise of prosecutorial discretion," allowing law enforcement officers to focus on immigrants who pose a threat to national security or public safety.
The announcement that President Bush had appointed Mr. Christie to the United States attorney's job in 2002 met with derision from Democrats and members of the news media on the grounds that he had no law enforcement or prosecutorial experience — no experience, the critics held, beyond party fund-raising.
The resolution contains a number of vital actions for countries to take, including strengthening their enforcement and prosecutorial efforts.
Even apart from this established legal tradition, prosecutorial discretion in the enforcement of immigration law is unavoidable.
Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed an amendment to the 2014 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill, which would prevent DHS from using prosecutorial discretion in immigration enforcement.
Rep. Lamar Smith might be shy to admit it, but he deserves a lot of credit for the administration's implementation of prosecutorial discretion in immigration enforcement.
