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prosecutor
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Word definitions for prosecutor in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prosecutor \Pros"e*cu`tor\, n. [Cf. L. prosecutor an attendant.] One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or business. (Law) The person who institutes and carries on a criminal suit against another in the name of the government. --Blackstone.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A lawyer who decides whether to charge a person with a crime and tries to prove in court that the person is guilty.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state [syn: public prosecutor , prosecuting officer , prosecuting attorney ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES public prosecutor special prosecutor COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE chief ▪ They included the chief constable, chief probation officer, and the chief crown prosecutor . ▪ It demonstrated the excesses that are possible ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries with either the common law adversarial system , or the civil law inquisitorial system . The prosecution is the legal party responsible for presenting the case in a criminal ...
Usage examples of prosecutor.
De Batz, surfeited with foreign money, used it firstly to ensure his own immunity, scattering it to right and left to still the ambition of the Public Prosecutor or to satisfy the greed of innumerable spies.
The chief prosecutor made the introductions, one by one, in the formal Japanese manner, while waitresses in kimono and obi circulated with glasses of Louis Roederer champagne, beluga malossol caviar, and toro, the fat-webbed sushi Japanese loved.
Roy Parrell was staring straight at the prosecutor, too tense to make a move while Goodling held that ready gun.
Teeth, during Farsun Week, reached a climax today when the Planetary Prosecutor presented charges against fourteen individuals allegedly responsible for the abduction of Renna Aarons, Peripatetic Emissary from the Hominid Phylum.
Prosecutor Plake moved to have the court take up the case of the Legion versus Dragoneer Relkin of the 109th Marneri.
Prosecutors had amassed a jury pool of over one thousand people but were having a tough time finding anyone not predisposed to finding Joel guilty even before going through the formality of a trial.
He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor.
It was admitted by the prosecutor that he had sold 10,000 head of cattle during the last six years, and none had been rebranded to his knowledge.
Hazenkamp a couple of times in his prosecutor days, seen him speak on prison conditions, recidivism rates, the usual.
She knew the judge advocate she asked to monitor the transaction would have to recuse himself from the subsequent court-martial, so she picked one she knew the prosecutors hated.
The prosecutor took her seat and Judge Shaheen inclined his head toward the defense.
Without credible evidence, a call for a special prosecutor would set a terrible precedent: From then on, every unsubstantiated charge against a President concerning events during any period of his life could require a special prosecutor.
This would seem an ideal opportunity for a diligent prosecutor, unswayed by politics and suitably appalled by such a massive rip-off, to launch a criminal probe.
The way I saw it, if prosecutors were doing their jobs and only asking for indictments that were warranted, grand jurors should be indicting all the cases given to them.
Just days after his arrival, Yousef boldly agreed to talk openly with FBI agents and prosecutors.