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 in the present climate of confusion and for which the chief public prosecutor has apologised.
▪ Four were arrested on the orders of the chief public prosecutor, but Mr Honecker was let off because of ill health.
▪ The chief military prosecutor said 12 servicemen are being prosecuted for crimes against civilians in Chechnya and another 46 are being investigated.
federal
▪ When the trial kicks off Wednesday, federal prosecutors hope to turn Kaczynski indirectly into their star witness.
▪ Mr Caserta, who left Spectrum in 1994, is already the subject of a similar criminal action brought by federal prosecutors.
▪ An independent counsel is subject to removal by the attorney general, the same as any federal prosecutor.
▪ Then federal prosecutors seized his house in Florida and his bank accounts in Baltimore.
▪ Working with Mr Sablosky as investigative counsel was William Callahan, a former federal prosecutor.
local
▪ Only if a local prosecutor then drops the case, deeming it unwinnable, might a prisoner gain freedom.
military
▪ Several thousand soldiers desert every year, and military prosecutors, knowing the conditions, are reluctant to punish them.
▪ It could be a political chief, an officer in the military, a prosecutor.
▪ Prosecutions are rare. Military prosecutors have brought charges in only eight alleged crimes against Chechen civilians.
▪ The chief military prosecutor said 12 servicemen are being prosecuted for crimes against civilians in Chechnya and another 46 are being investigated.
public
▪ He had been a public corruption prosecutor, a D.C.
▪ He was later charged with trespass, and the public prosecutor in Mannheim will this week decide whether other charges will follow.
▪ All prosecutions are undertaken by the public prosecutor, the Lord Advocate, or his subordinates, the procurators fiscal.
▪ On June 14, 1961, at the request of Milan's public prosecutor, it was seized by 25 plain-clothes policemen.
▪ It demonstrated the excesses that are possible in the present climate of confusion and for which the chief public prosecutor has apologised.
special
▪ Confusion then beset the top ranks of the government and the judiciary-#special commissions and prosecutors came and went.
▪ A special prosecutor was assigned, and charges were filed against the officers in June 1996.
▪ The special state prosecutor in charge of the case said that she would be appealing against the Supreme Court's ruling.
▪ Lozano and his top special prosecutor had been praised here and abroad for bringing down Raul Salinas.
▪ Within ten days, a special prosecutor had been appointed to look into criminal misconduct.
▪ Neither the president nor Mrs Clinton has been charged in the investigation conducted by special prosecutor Kenneth Starr.
▪ The fraud was so obvious that Daley had to permit a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate.
▪ The special prosecutor last month asked the Supreme Court to turn aside the White House appeal over the attorneys' notes.
■ NOUN
county
▪ Baltimore County prosecutors are expected to request death warrants this month.
▪ There are no plans to arrest the boy himself, said the Genessee County prosecutor Arthur Busch.
▪ The two were booked early Tuesday and released pending a review by Maricopa County prosecutors.
▪ Alameda County prosecutors are now looking into alleged incidents dating back to 1995, a year after he joined the church.
former
▪ Kerry and Weld are both scrappy former prosecutors who have shown in past campaigns that they can fight hard.
▪ M., a former prosecutor, has virtually no connection to the committee.
▪ Earle has drawn three opponents this year, two in his own Democratic primary and a Republican former prosecutor.
state
▪ Rafael Cesario, a state prosecutor who investigated the bicheiros for a decade, linked them to 40 murders.
▪ He met with the state prosecutor in Bavaria in 1994 and the state minister of justice in 1995.
▪ The state prosecutor had demanded Melih Calayoglu be sent to jail for at least five years.
▪ Teran about the Jan. 3 slaying of state prosecutor Hodin Gutierrez Rico.
▪ The special state prosecutor in charge of the case said that she would be appealing against the Supreme Court's ruling.
▪ A state prosecutor, he said, found that the two nuns had nothing to add to the case.
▪ On Aug. 24 the state prosecutor, Nurullo Khuvaidullayev, had been murdered by unknown persons in Dushanbe.
▪ An official investigation into the issue was opened by the state prosecutor on April 2.
■ VERB
accord
▪ Davis' siblings appear less scarred by their loveless upbringing, according to prosecutors.
allow
▪ That measure, though, would not allow prosecutors to use that refusal as evidence of guilt.
▪ It would have toughened the system by allowing prosecutors, rather than judges, to decide when to try children as adults.
appoint
▪ But in 1988, the Supreme Court upheld the procedure for appointing a special prosecutor outside the Justice Department.
ask
▪ Then I will ask the prosecutor and his assistant to do the same thing.
▪ The most conservative justice, Antonin Scalia, was skeptical and asked both prosecutors tough questions.
charge
▪ Meanwhile scores of rebel sup porters appeared in court as prosecutors pressed the first charges stemming from the coup attempt.
▪ Federal prosecutors charged that King pocketed that money.
▪ In 1979, prosecutors charged Klan members in Detroit with conspiracy against the rights of citizens and interference with federally protected activities.
▪ The prosecutors charged eighty-five defendants, including forty-four law enforcement officers.
▪ Last year, prosecutors charged him with obstruction of justice.
investigate
▪ Rafael Cesario, a state prosecutor who investigated the bicheiros for a decade, linked them to 40 murders.
▪ Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Castle Grande was part of a conspiracy to defraud Madison.
▪ The couple appealed to provincial prosecutors to investigate.
▪ They are the primary target of a special prosecutor investigating a long-ago Whitewater business deal that went sour.
▪ Before the pardon was granted, federal prosecutors began investigating new allegations of money laundering and tax evasion.
tell
▪ They have told prosecutors Kaczynski may suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, a mental disorder that can cause intricate delusions.
▪ In those earlier interviews, Manning told prosecutors McVeigh remained at the shop throughout the period in question.
▪ Wednesday afternoon, Clark told senior prosecutors she would not be returning to the office.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A special prosecutor was appointed to deal with that particular case.
▪ The chief prosecutor told the court that Johnson was guilty of a horrible crime and asked for the maximum sentence.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a prosecutor, I would never have missed it.
▪ Bronx juries were difficult enough for a prosecutor as it was.
▪ Cole, a former Justice Department prosecutor, is equally thorough in the documents he is requesting.
▪ Confusion then beset the top ranks of the government and the judiciary-special commissions and prosecutors came and went.
▪ Meanwhile scores of rebel sup porters appeared in court as prosecutors pressed the first charges stemming from the coup attempt.
▪ The fraud was so obvious that Daley had to permit a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate.
▪ There may also be a reluctance among prosecutors to look beyond the individual driver, pilot, or captain in each case.