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prosecutorial

a. (context criminal law English) Relating to a prosecuting criminal cases.

Usage examples of "prosecutorial".

No prosecutorial glory for Leslie Faireunless she had designs on jumping over to the U.

It was a rarity that the defense would not object to prosecutorial foot dragging.

His first priority was to distance himself from this prosecutorial catastrophe.

So much for my big impressive step up in the prosecutorial food chain.

When the cameras rushed over to me, I gave them the standard prosecutorial line.

Courts live with the fiction that grand juries are independent of the judicial and prosecutorial systems.

Joel was banking on being guilty by reason of insanity or having his statements suppressed because of police and prosecutorial misconduct.

This was a bit of prosecutorial parlor talk probably best not shared in front of a defense lawyer.

The Chief Judge, whose ostensible duty it was to restrain prosecutorial abuse, was a block away, across Federal Square, in the grand old courthouse to which the District Court judges all returned once the new building proved nearly uninhabitable.

He seemed quite positive, and that precise diction of his, that prosecutorial inflection he was prone to, made arguing with him an unappealing prospect.

RICO weapon would be the prosecutorial wave of the future and figuring that he might as well get educated now.

We had talked about legislative reform and the history of the movement that led to the police and prosecutorial strategies of the seventies.

Christine had tried to make friends and cultivate dependable sources, quietly building up her files but accumulating almost nothing of prosecutorial value.

One moment the words before her were sharp, incisive, and her mind hopscotched through a dozen prosecutorial tricks she could use against Drake Boone.

At this, she visibly fought to control herself, to retain some of her old evenhandedness beneath the weight of her prosecutorial mantle.