prosecutor
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Sometimes, even when the prosecutor involved almost certainly knows something other than justice is in the works, there is a momentum of ego and bureaucracy that is hard to reverse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
A prosecutor who is willing to change his or her mind is critical to delivering real justice, because people get things wrong.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The following month, Trump nominated McDonald—the Sullivan & Cromwell lawyer who had represented Live Nation in the settlement—to be Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The prosecutor said evidence from the boy - now in his 20s - was also "straightforward and not contrived".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
I took the risk of talking to a few local lawyers about whether the new prosecutor might acknowledge that the conviction was unreliable and support a new trial if there was compelling new evidence.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan and Washington, as well as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, have been involved in the latest investigations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
According to state prosecutors, Castro falsely claimed that Sosa-Celis and another man had attacked an ICE agent with a broom and shovel, and that he had simply acted in self defense.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
U.S. prosecutors have no mandate to respond to Mexican inquiries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Anne Donaghy is one of three people referred to prosecutors for consideration over alleged misconduct in public office at Mid and East Antrim Borough Council.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
His alibi—that he was with another woman—checked out, and it became clear that the forger who had implicated Brown had fabricated his story hoping to bargain with prosecutors for better prison conditions.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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