Word: prosecutors
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...Mohammed didn’t exhibit the same urgency to just get the hell home. While we sat waiting for the police chief to come tell us why we had been re-arrested after having already been set free by the prosecutor, Mohammed deliberately put himself at risk again by offering a cell phone to another detainee. The phone was clearly contraband, as indicated by all the signs hanging around the station. But, for Mohammed, the instinct for self-preservation was overridden by the desire to help the other guy call home. That sealed his fate: The police chief...
...death row, has summarized the flaws in the judicial system that led the Supreme Court to declare all statewide capital punishment laws unconstitutional in 1972: “Being on death row depends so much on class status, economic status, the ability to get adequate representation, how seriously the prosecutor seeks the death penalty, what kind of jury you get. It’s all pretty arbitrary, really...
...fairly typical capital appeal, in which the defense team heaps allegations on the original lawyer - the high-living Mostiler died of a coronary in 2000 - while the prosecution extols the brilliance of the condemned man's trial attorney. "Mostiler was the toughest trial lawyer in Spalding County," one prosecutor declared of a man far better known for engineering guilty pleas than for winning cases in the courtroom...
Obermann alerted the state prosecutor's office on May 14. Friedrich Apostel, the prosecuting attorney in Bonn, where Telekom has its headquarters, said prosecutors would determine in the coming week whether there is sufficient evidence to warrant opening a full-fledged investigation. "We first have to determine whether there is sufficient evidence that a crime was committed," he said...
...charges were dismissed without prejudice, meaning that a prosecutor could reinstate them at any time. But few observers expect that to happen, largely because Qahtani underwent protracted torture and the threat of torture during his interrogation at Guantanamo, a process that tainted his confessions as well as the evidence he gave against other prisoners...