How to Use prosecutorial in a Sentence

prosecutorial

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  • Stevens was found guilty but the corruption charges were later thrown out due to prosecutorial misconduct in the case.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • All of which goes back to the question of prosecutorial discretion.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The botched cases come amid a growing call for Adel to resign as leader of the nation's third-largest prosecutorial agency.
    — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2022
  • There even may have been prosecutorial misconduct—a state lawyer misleading a judge about the outcome of one of the brothers’ polygraph tests.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The chair is a symbol of the bigger-than-life drama and egos around hedge-fund billionaires and powerful prosecutorial foes.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2022
  • One of the things that anyone who's gone through law school learns—especially women—is how to sound prosecutorial.
    — Emily Leibert, Glamour, 29 Mar. 2023
  • But Snowden said most of the hires are new and don’t have prosecutorial experience.
    — oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Those agents and lawyers are part of the same federal prosecutorial district as the ones who came to investigate Paxton.
    — Jake Bleiberg and Eric Tucker, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The news comes weeks after Robinson’s legal team urged the U.S. government in a letter to intervene in the case and expedite the prosecutorial process.
    — Char Adams, NBC News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • This comes after weeks of scrutiny over her leadership of one of the nation’s largest prosecutorial teams.
    — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 23 Mar. 2022
  • If the defendant here were anyone else, there would be public outrage over the unabashed politicizing of the prosecutorial process.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 9 Sep. 2023
  • In a court filing last week, the DA’s office cited prosecutorial discretion as its reason for dropping the charges.
    — Shaddi Abusaid, ajc, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Duncan’s team argued that the case against him was the product of fraudulent science, prosecutorial chicanery, and the lies of a jailhouse informant.
    — Lara Bazelon, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Further, the State did not engage in prosecutorial misconduct in presenting their case to the jury.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Willis now appears set to use her favorite prosecutorial Swiss Army knife in the most high-profile case of her career: the prosecution of Donald Trump on charges related to the 2020 election.
    — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Candidates to run for the office in the 2022 election had just two weeks to file paperwork and gather signatures to qualify for the August primaries in their bid to take over one of the largest prosecutorial teams in the country.
    — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Hayden said that his office’s decision was neither, and that to move forward with the case would have been prosecutorial misconduct.
    — Andrew Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Rittenhouse's lawyers had sought to have a mistrial declared over alleged prosecutorial misconduct and issues with a key video in the state's case.
    — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2021
  • But Trump's lawyer, Steven Sadow, said that the judge had not given enough credence to evidence of prosecutorial misconduct.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Cheney did not say what the committee, which does not have prosecutorial powers, intends to do with the information.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2022
  • The Labour leader’s decision looks to be in keeping with his background as a lawyer and Britain’s director of public prosecutions, one of the country’s top prosecutorial jobs.
    — Shafi Musaddique, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 June 2022
  • Yet the idea of using such elements to tell the story of how fame becomes unwieldy and possibly prosecutorial courts toothlessness or distraction in a way that doesn’t service the film.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The conviction was thrown out by the Florida Supreme Court in 1989 because of prosecutorial misconduct.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 3 May 2023
  • Giving all sides a platform and open ear, the series leaves the impression of a whole lot of reasonable doubt in Boyer’s case, amid prosecutorial arguments that often sound more moral than legal.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2023
  • In 27 of those cases there was prosecutorial misconduct by Mr. Connick’s assistants, the group’s director, Jee Park, said in an email.
    — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Gableman has no prosecutorial power and has been given the title of special counsel.
    — Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Gladson's appeal to ask a judge to dismiss charges against the Groveland Four was not based on whether Padgett may be lying, King said, but rather on the prosecutorial misconduct and the fabrication of evidence at the time.
    — NBC News, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The current prosecutors argued Husel’s team did not prove there was any prosecutorial misconduct or that the grand jury was misled.
    — Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Four months after the firm opened, Morris would need Yorn’s prosecutorial experience after he was charged with two counts of driving under the influence.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Since then, the edit page has not softened its view of Trump personally, although each indictment has been dismissed as prosecutorial overreach by forces aligned with Joe Biden.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 4 Sep. 2023

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