A Little History The plea bargain was a prosecutorial tool used only episodically before the 19th century.
There's some fine material here, but the documentary revisits familiar terrain and leans too hard on insinuation, as with the suggestion that some prosecutorial players used the original trial for (surprise) political gain.
The Obama administration has used prosecutorial discretion, or the decision to use limited resources to enforce some cases over others, to grant some undocumented immigrants a reprieve, while continuing a high level of deportations more broadly.
It required them to use prosecutorial discretion in picking and choosing among illegal immigrants facing deportation.
Under the new guidelines, officials will use "prosecutorial discretion" to review the current docket of 300,000 deportation cases, suspending expulsions for a range of immigrants.
In June, senior officials at the Homeland Security Department announced a policy to encourage immigration agents and lawyers to use prosecutorial discretion when deciding whether to pursue deportation.
The Congressional sponsors of the 1996 act responded by saying that the I.N.S. should use "prosecutorial discretion" not to bring deportation cases of that kind.
For immigrants who come forward and qualify, Homeland Security authorities will use prosecutorial discretion to grant deferred action, a reprieve that will be valid for two years and will have to be renewed.
Both are efforts to put into practice a policy senior officials had announced in June, to encourage immigration agents to use prosecutorial discretion when deciding whether to pursue a deportation.
It is simplistic to argue that "antitrust regulation still suffers from an unwillingness to challenge 'vertical integration.' " The antitrust laws, like any other law, require enforcers to use prosecutorial discretion, which means not taking bad cases that will lead to bad precedents and actually hurting enforcement efforts.
