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  2. Prosecutor - Wikipedia

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    A prosecutor is a legal representative of the prosecution in states with either the adversarial system, which is adopted in common law, or inquisitorial system, which is adopted in civil law. The prosecution is the legal party responsible for presenting the case in a criminal trial against the defendant, an individual accused of breaking the ...

  3. Selective prosecution - Wikipedia

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    In jurisprudence, selective prosecution is a procedural defense in which defendants argue that they should not be held criminally liable for breaking the law because the criminal justice system discriminated against them by choosing to prosecute. In claims of selective prosecution, defendants essentially argue that it is irrelevant whether they ...

  4. Prosecutorial misconduct - Wikipedia

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    In jurisprudence, prosecutorial misconduct or prosecutorial overreach is "an illegal act or failing to act, on the part of a prosecutor, especially an attempt to sway the jury to wrongly convict a defendant or to impose a harsher than appropriate punishment."

  5. Criminal justice - Wikipedia

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    The criminal justice system consists of three main parts: Law enforcement agencies, usually the police; Courts and accompanying prosecution and defence lawyers; Agencies for detaining and supervising offenders, such as prisons and probation agencies.

  6. Selective enforcement - Wikipedia

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    In law, selective enforcement occurs when government officials (such as police officers, prosecutors, or regulators) exercise discretion, which is the power to choose whether or how to punish a person who has violated the law.

  7. Prosecutorial discretion - Wikipedia

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    Cancelling the prosecution of a crime is called a sepot or seponering in Dutch and is mentioned in the Dutch Criminal Procedure Code (Articles from 12 to 13a). [14] There are three types of cancellation of prosecution: policy sepot: petty crimes are not prosecuted to free up capacity in the legal system and to prosecute serious crimes.

  8. Legal immunity - Wikipedia

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    Legal immunity, or immunity from prosecution, is a legal status wherein an individual or entity cannot be held liable for a violation of the law, in order to facilitate societal aims that outweigh the value of imposing liability in such cases.

  9. Obstruction of justice in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In federal law, crimes constituting obstruction of justice are defined primarily in Chapter 73 of Title 18 of the United States Code. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] This chapter contains provisions covering various specific crimes such as witness tampering and retaliation, jury tampering , destruction of evidence , assault on a process server , and theft of court ...