Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Across the river, in front of the Palais de Justice, a dense crowd waited in the cold for the scraps of news flung to them ever and anon by devious persons. Inside, Maitre Donal Guigue, Public Prosecutor, demanded the death sentence. Nobody had the right to kill, he said. But his heart was not behind his words; he was reciting a mere formality. To Maitre Henri Robert, defending lawyer, he confided: "I envy you your job. Would I were standing in your place. This case is one in which the Public Prosecutor's role is not that of a sympathetic...
...grim figure of the Public Prosecutor Krylenco arose to demand the life of the prisoner. This demand was quickly granted, but, out of consideration for the advanced age of the "revolutionary traitor" the death sentence was commuted to ten years' penal servitude...
...Public Prosecutor and counsel for the President declared, and supported their statements by prominent witnesses, that Herr Ebert had joined the strikers only to limit the scope of the strike and to bring it to a quick conclusion; that the plaintiff was not in any way responsible for the strike. Thus, on these grounds, the President claimed that he had been wilfully maligned...
Counsel for the President and the Public Prosecutor gave notice of appeal; but the defendant, who was the logical person to appeal...
...Madrid, the Public Prosecutor presented to the President of the Supreme Tribunal an indictment against Ibanez for publication and distribution of pamphlets, constituting inter alia, the crime of lèse-majesté*. The author was then summoned to appear within 15 days before a military judge in Madrid, to give testimony in his defense. Somewhere in France, somebody informed Ibanez of the summons. Roared he in hearty laughter: "I would just as soon take refuge on a cannibal island or throw myself into waters inhabited by crocodiles or famished sharks as to confide myself to the government of bandits...