As such, prosecuting perpetrators of animal cruelty could perhaps simultaneously prevent or reduce incidents of domestic violence and animal abuse.
You start vesting discretion in just one advocate's side, such as the prosecuting attorney, you really will lose the neutrality and unbiased arbiter to provide the kind of justice that our community expects.
Others likened the greater supervision in Washington to similar programs in such elite prosecuting offices as New York's.
But privacy and civil liberties groups say the bill's definition of the consumer data that can be shared with the government is overly broad, and once the data is shared, the government could use that information for other purposes -- such as investigating or prosecuting crimes -- without needing to obtain a warrant.
Ban did not name individual countries but UN officials say that while some, such as France, Morocco and South Africa, have prosecuted troops serving under the UN flag, others, such as Pakistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, frequently take no action.
Most of the discussion was centred on legal issues such as how to prosecute violators, according to a State Department official.
Because Article Six of the Constitution enshrines treaties as "the supreme law of the land", President Obama and his Attorney General, technically, have an obligation to uphold them and arrest alleged war criminals such as Rice and prosecute them in Federal Court.
This is defined as: "Discretionary powers exercised by the government's prosecution service such as whether to prosecute charge recommended by police, to stay an ongoing proceeding, plea bargaining, or the taking over of a private prosecution".
In many cases, such violence is prosecuted as conventional crime.
This creates a potentially vast loophole for the feds, as "uses authorized under CISA" include a number of law enforcement activities unrelated to cybersecurity, such as "investigating [and] prosecuting … sexual exploitation and threats to physical safety".
