Sentences with phrase «of prosecutorial abuse»

After a few years in civil litigation and property law, Mike became a Deputy District Attorney in Fresno, where he saw the effects of prosecutorial abuse on people who were trying to recover in the face of serious charges.

When you think about some of the prosecutorial abuses in the criminal process even where defendants are represented by counsel, the odds that Stewart could beat his charges at a pro se are very high indeed.

Not exact matches

The real crisis in this state is the kind of political witch - hunt and prosecutorial abuse.»

«These self confessed forgery and abuse of public trust are crimes within investigative and prosecutorial powers law enforcement agencies.

She has campaigned to stop jail expansion; confront police violence; reveal prosecutorial misconduct; bring visibility to women prisoners, political prisoners, and people confined to control units; interrupt gender discrimination and bias within prisons, policing, and sentencing; challenge the human rights abuses of prisoners, former prisoners and their family members, and experiment with decarceration models for shrinking the system.

Such cases are much more analogous to Cuccinelli's abuse of his prosecutorial powers.

It was widely decried as an abuse of prosecutorial power, a waste of taxpayer money, and a threat to academic freedom.

Courts can not only order prosecutors to consider a case, but they can also find an «abuse of prosecutorial discretion» and then decide themselves whether the state has to prosecute a case, enforce a law, etc..

Justice Archie Campbell saw through the OSC's tactic, noting the defence «has a right to make allegations of abuse of process and prosecutorial misconduct» and he refused to kick Hryn off, noting there was a «real basis for the defence concern about Mr. Naster's failure to appreciate his duty to follow adverse rulings.

It adds: «The threat of a corporate death sentence is an abuse of prosecutorial discretion against any but the most corrupt criminal enterprises — namely, the mob.»

The standard of review almost always requires the petitioner to show that the failure to prosecute was «an abuse of prosecutorial discretion.»

In criminal cases, a judge will be reluctant to give a stay of adjudication without prosecutor approval (or finding an abuse of prosecutorial discretion) but in petty misdemeanor traffic cases judges are more willing despite prosecution opposition.

[45] In explaining how I reach this conclusion, I first outline the approach to the review of prosecutorial discretion, including the threshold evidentiary burden that must be met by an accused person alleging an abuse of process based on the improper exercise of prosecutorial discretion.

I have called a tie between Nickey Johnson's submission regarding prosecutorial discretion and its potential for abuse and Stefon Lyons and Arely Lopez's team submission regarding the use of Big Data to predict legal outcomes.

The majority held that decisions about professional discipline are akin to prosecutorial discretion, such that errors «must likely approach an abuse of process to invite judicial intervention» (at para 47).