Sentence examples for prosecutorial responsibilities from inspiring English sources
Some, including City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, wonder if the board's new prosecutorial responsibilities will go far enough, since it is unclear whether board lawyers will have a say in picking which cases to bring to trial — a crucial ability for any prosecutor.
Critics say that is an abdication of prosecutorial responsibility.
Real reform of police oversight needs to go well beyond a simple shift of prosecutorial responsibility.
Her report does not explain why she chose to delegate that decision to Mr. Soares, except to note that Mr. Soares, as district attorney, has "original and ultimate responsibility for prosecutorial decisions regarding crimes and offenses arising in Albany County".
With this responsibility comes the power of prosecutorial discretion, namely the authority of an agency to decide what charges to bring and how to pursue each case.
Fed up with a prosecutorial government, Mr. Riordan and other executives "shrug" their responsibilities.
A statement from the prosecutorial Investigative Committee said the officials "did not determine the proportion of the natural disaster, did not carry out their responsibility to promptly and appropriately warn the population about the hazard arising from an extreme situation caused by nature, or to evacuate people to safe areas".
Everyone should be troubled by this mass abdication of responsibility by the third branch of government, which is supposed to be the only independent review of prosecutorial power, but is instead nothing but a rubber stamp".
Thus, as set forth explicitly in Department of Justice regulations, the Department, "in recognition of the importance of freedom of the press to a free and democratic society," has promulgated regulations providing that "the prosecutorial power of the Government should not be used in such a way that it impairs a reporter's responsibility to cover as broadly as possible controversial public issues".
— abuse of prosecutorial power".
