This disparity is likely due to the fact that the NYC counties already had robust prosecutor-led diversion programs in place prior to the reforms.
The pact may stanch -- at least for now -- what had become a bitter turf war between two ambitious prosecutors with robust egos, but it does little to bridge a wide gap in their strategies on pursuing Mr. Quattrone.
But there is a much more serious side to the issue of pilfered pencils, according to Manhattan prosecutors: a robust network of people who traffic in office supplies, making thousands of dollars stealing items so unremarkable that their disappearance goes, well, unremarked upon.
Yet, this latest tragic murder makes clear that these efforts need to include more robust protections to the prosecutors, judges, and witnesses involved in bring to justice those responsible for Russia's endemic hate crime problem.
Prosecutors were fairly robust in their defence of custodial and deterrent sentences, though occasionally admitting to the febrile atmosphere in which such sentencing took place, and occasionally talked in more sympathetic tones about the large number of first-time offenders.
We've seen terror attempts foiled by a combination of heightened security and awareness, improved intelligence gathering, robust enforcement by police and prosecutors, quick actions by an observant public and sheer luck: the "Detroit Christmas plot," the "shoe bomber," the Times Square bomber.
The majority of their relationship was conducted via text and calls, which means prosecutors have access to an unusually robust amount of correspondence.
"There is always a gamble because the jury most likely anticipates the defendants will put up a robust defense," said Jacob S. Frenkel, a former federal prosecutor.
The chief prosecutor of England and Wales has made a robust defence of the decision to prosecute historic sex cases, despite the recent acquittals of celebrities such as Dave Lee Travis and Bill Roache.
For all of its malign effects, Lava Jato has underscored that Brazil has a robust and independent group of federal police officers, judges and prosecutors, a rarity in nations plagued by corruption.
"When a person makes such comments digitally, they effectively hand police and prosecutors much of the evidence needed to build a robust case against them".
