Sentences with phrase «prosecutors do»

Broward State Attorney Mike Satz and his prosecutors do not have to immediately announce whether they will seek the death penalty.

But if prosecutors don't accept a plea deal (or if the victims» families tell the prosecutors they don't want it), then they'll push for the death penalty.

Because prosecutors do not in fact control criminal investigations, they receive from police many cases as «cleared» although the suspect's legal guilt is doubtful or sufficient evidence for establishing his responsibility in court is lacking.

Judges resist the notion because acknowledgement would endanger their status and turf as «beyond politics» and put them on the same plain as the legislators and executives who are trying to get control of the results of what the judges and prosecutors do.

Prosecutors don't have time to try 50 cases and if you have a lawyer on your side that you respect and have a relationship with they often will cut a deal or dismiss the charges.

California's prosecutors do not take DUI offenses lightly.

And your first paragraph doesn't quite apply because you're describing a defense against a crime, which would have to be prosecuted by the state, and prosecutors don't last long if they bring frivolous claims, much less nonsense arguments.

Prosecutors do not close files simply because they do not want to wade through the paper.

Obviously this doesn't come up all that often because usually prosecutors don't bring murder cases until they find a body and identify it and aren't in a rush to do so because there is usually no statute of limitations for murder.

«While many, and perhaps most prosecutors don't cheat and lie, Nifong is not the only one.

Since some courts interpret this to mean that a federal agent's interview report is the statement of the agent, not the witness, many prosecutors do not disclose such reports and feel legally safe in believing they will never see the light of day.

A: While victims have an opinion about the outcome of their potential penalty, they do not control what prosecutors do on a case.

Prosecutors do not have to prove that a defendant intended to kill the victim with his vehicle; in fact, vehicular manslaughter cases usually take as given the idea that the defendant did not have such intent.

And police and prosecutors don't ask their sources about the quality of their records management in preparation for making «Stinchcombe disclosure» to the defence; see: R. v. Stinchcombe [1991] CanLII 45 (SCC), [1991] 3 SCR 326; and, R. v. McNeil 2009 SCC 3, [2009] 1 SCR 66.

Nope... But Federal Prosecutors do have some serious power.

«If prosecutors don't like that system, they can do what democracies do: they can go to the people and ask for change,» Molo told the jury.

«Federal prosecutors do not shy away from difficult cases, especially those involving conduct of public officials who intertwine their public and private affairs, and we will continue to investigate such conduct and prosecute those case when the evidence warrants.»

Let the governor do the job of the governor and let the prosecutors do the job of the prosecutors.

«While we believe the vast majority of prosecutors do a difficult and admirable job, we do know that some people are wrongly convicted at the hands of prosecutors who fail in their ethical responsibilities,» Cates added.

The documents released this week by federal prosecutors do not show it did, and I suspect it did not.»

Search warrants are more often used in cases in which prosecutors do not trust people to preserve or turn over the records themselves.

Before approving charges, jurors must believe there's enough evidence to believe a crime was committed, and prosecutors don't usually present indictments unless they believe they can prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt at trial, former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti wrote Friday.

Willamette Week reports that prosecutors did not press charges after finding insufficient evidence to support the woman's claims.

Prosecutors didn't specify what illness Lubitz may have been suffering from, or say whether it was mental or physical.

For decades, it was perfectly legal to use these strikes on a discriminatory basis — and that's exactly what prosecutors did.

In Pakistan, two Muslim men who raped Christian sisters were acquitted after a key witness refused to testify and a prosecutor didn't show up in court.

Prosecutors didn't say in the filing there was anything wrong with the sharing arrangement with Percoco, who faces a January trial in Manhattan federal court for taking bribes.

The prosecutor did not oppose the application for bail.

At a scheduled pre-trial hearing in the case on May 24, 2013, Chief Assistant District Attorney David Rossi told Carter he would not call witnesses because prosecutors did not plan to prosecute.

He said in his reply that the prosecutors did not prepare their cases properly.

Prosecutors did not comment.

Last year the Observer called former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver «Teflon» on this list, but the non-stick wore off under the searing heat of Mr. Bharara's probes and the prosecutor did the unthinkable, eventually ending Mr. Silver's long reign.

While prosecutors did not end up charging the mayor or his top aides, a report in The New York Times shows the mayor and his top aides took an extraordinary degree of interest and became directly involved in the city's handling of a dispute involving a political donor, Harendra Singh.

A prosecutor did not return her repeated phone messages, she said.

Prosecutors did not name the employees but listed their job titles: director of state operations, deputy commissioner for public affairs of the NYS Division of Homeland Security, executive deputy commissioner of the Office of General Services and an executive chamber employee who was eyeing a job at SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

Miller argued that federal prosecutors did not establish probable cause when they applied for search warrants in December 2015 and March 2016 to go through Kaloyeros» personal email account.

Although prosecutors did not file criminal charges against de Blasio or his associates, the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan concluded that de Blasio or his colleagues often solicited donations from individuals seeking favors from the city, before later reaching out to city agencies on their behalf.

Prosecutors didn't ask for bail because they didn't want him to sit in jail while they vet his alibi, a spokeswoman for the Bronx District Attorney's office said Monday.

Of the five ministers whose names were attached to the letter, two later told prosecutors they did not give prior authorization.

The papers, which respond to arguments raised by the attorney of the former aide, Joe Percoco, push back against claims federal prosecutors did not provide defense lawyers enough time to respond before the trial begins early next year.

But prosecutors did recommend a prison term «greater than any sentence imposed on other New York state legislators convicted of public corruption offenses.»

Voters give Cuomo stratospheric job - approval numbers, but they'd sooner have an independent prosecutor do the investigating,» adds Carroll.

He said he has presented evidence to the judge of «one or more» instances in which prosecutors did not bring cases against people who allegedly stole money from campaign accounts.

He also recalled the suggestion, made in court and elsewhere, that prosecutors did not really understand politics.

There, prosecutors didn't see Heng as the primary culprit, and didn't pursue the most serious charges against him.

We have to assume that that either the LSUC's outside prosecutor advised the LSUC that there was a valid basis to prosecute or somebody else did but, in any event, the prosecutor didn't disagree sufficiently to withdraw from the case at any point.

The court observed that although prosecutors did not produce additional evidence or testimony regarding the «import of these items, the State explicitly sought in both opening and closing to link these items with the so - called «gothic lifestyle» and to characterize them as evidence of «satanic influences.»»

Prosecutors didn't think that play on words was all that cute.

In seeking to establish such an action, the plaintiff must have been acquitted of the charges in question and must prove that the prosecutor did not personally believe that there were reasonable and probable grounds to proceed with the prosecution and moreover, that there was no objective grounds for prosecution.

Even if a prosecutor does not have enough evidence to convict someone of homicide, there may be enough evidence to sufficiently prove liability for wrongful death.