Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that prosecutes.
- noun One that initiates and carries out a legal action, especially criminal proceedings.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who prosecutes; one who pursues or carries on any purpose, plan, enterprise, or undertaking.
- noun In law, the person who institutes and carries on any proceedings in a court of justice, whether civil or criminal: generally applied to a complainant who institutes criminal proceedings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or business.
- noun (Law) The person who institutes and carries on a criminal suit against another in the name of the government.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
lawyer who decides whether tocharge a person with acrime and tries to prove incourt that the person isguilty .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ms Karas explained ‘what the prosecutor is aiming for, what the defense is aiming for, and the punishments would be for the for just the murder change’.
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Let's see, who else should not be mirandized "just because" a prosecutor is absolutely certain that they have enough evidence to convict them at a trial?
Holder says no need to read Miranda rights to bin Laden if captured 2010
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With the assumption that the prosecutor is a more reliable source of information than the defense.
The Preponderance of the Evidence, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I can live with that as it APPEARS the prosecutor is a straight shooter.
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It appears that the prosecutor is as good as his reputation.
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This prosecutor is a partisan – just ask Kay Bailey.
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Unlike other state attorneys general, New York's top prosecutor is empowered to pursue both criminal and civil penalties with nationwide reach under the Martin Act, signed into law in 1921.
New York Prosecutor to Keep Up Pressure Liz Rappaport 2010
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Unless Mr. Cuomo persuades him otherwise, Steven Cohen, the attorney general's chief of staff and a former federal prosecutor, is likely to return to practicing law in the private sector, according to individuals familiar with the transition.
Cuomo Ponders New Team Jacob Gershman 2010
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I suspect the prosecutor is just trying to pad the charges a little there, in case any of them get thrown out on a technicality or perhaps to pad the sentence or his own CV.
ProWomanProLife » The insanity of “choice” – part 32938120 in a long series 2010
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Among other cases of suspected jihadists, Germany's chief prosecutor is investigating two men from Hamburg who traveled to Afghanistan with Mr. Sidiqi in 2009, Shahab Dashti and Naamen Meziche, a spokesman for the prosecutor said.
Germany Steps Up Terrorism Probes David Crawford 2010
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