Sentences with phrase «resourced public prosecutors»

He had learned from his legendary former boss Robert Morgenthau that under - resourced public prosecutors can't beat deep - pocketed law firms on a level playing field, and that where banks and wealthy defendants may have time and money on their side, prosecutors can use the press to erase at least the first advantage.

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Now is the time for consumers, investors, public prosecutors, policy makers, and others to demand answers to the above questions, and insist that major fossil energy producers use their enormous resources and technical capacity to make real plans for a 2 °C world.

Add that the subject will likely have public relevance and sympathies and, probably, money enough for a crack team of lawyers, and you conclude that any prosecutor who goes that way without an airtight case will appear to the public to be wasting public resources to prosecute a minor crime (that many people won't ever consider as a crime) in order to get publicity.

In addition, prosecutors have a duty to the public to use limited resources (like their own and the court's time) judiciously.