How to Use prosecutorial in a Sentence

prosecutorial

adjective

• Stevens was found guilty but the corruption charges were later thrown out due to prosecutorial misconduct in the case.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023
• All of which goes back to the question of prosecutorial discretion.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2022
• The botched cases come amid a growing call for Adel to resign as leader of the nation's third-largest prosecutorial agency.
  — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2022
• There even may have been prosecutorial misconduct—a state lawyer misleading a judge about the outcome of one of the brothers’ polygraph tests.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2024
• His sentence was reduced to 23 years to life in prison after signs of prosecutorial misconduct emerged in his case, Price said.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 16 July 2024
• The chair is a symbol of the bigger-than-life drama and egos around hedge-fund billionaires and powerful prosecutorial foes.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2022
• One of the things that anyone who's gone through law school learns—especially women—is how to sound prosecutorial.
  — Emily Leibert, Glamour, 29 Mar. 2023
• But Snowden said most of the hires are new and don’t have prosecutorial experience.
  — oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2022
• Rather, the Justice Department made good on rules that bar prosecutorial meddling in elections, in stark contrast to the many mistakes made by Jim Comey in 2016.
  — Arkansas Online, 14 Dec. 2020
• Those agents and lawyers are part of the same federal prosecutorial district as the ones who came to investigate Paxton.
  — Jake Bleiberg and Eric Tucker, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
• The news comes weeks after Robinson’s legal team urged the U.S. government in a letter to intervene in the case and expedite the prosecutorial process.
  — Char Adams, NBC News, 12 Apr. 2023
• The case represents the first test of Ms. Katz’s handling of claims of prosecutorial misconduct.
  — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
• But Vance is sixty-six, and the pressure of managing one of the highest-profile prosecutorial offices in the country has been wearying.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2021
• The government’s legal case against many of the Navy officers has hit a stumbling block in the last year or so because of prosecutorial misconduct.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2024
• This comes after weeks of scrutiny over her leadership of one of the nation’s largest prosecutorial teams.
  — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 23 Mar. 2022
• If the defendant here were anyone else, there would be public outrage over the unabashed politicizing of the prosecutorial process.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 9 Sep. 2023
• In a court filing last week, the DA’s office cited prosecutorial discretion as its reason for dropping the charges.
  — Shaddi Abusaid, ajc, 24 Oct. 2022
• Duncan’s team argued that the case against him was the product of fraudulent science, prosecutorial chicanery, and the lies of a jailhouse informant.
  — Lara Bazelon, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
• The same system that used its prosecutorial discretion to charge him with dozens of felonies when his opponents were let off the hook for similar offenses.
  — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2024
• Further, the State did not engage in prosecutorial misconduct in presenting their case to the jury.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 19 Dec. 2023
• Willis now appears set to use her favorite prosecutorial Swiss Army knife in the most high-profile case of her career: the prosecution of Donald Trump on charges related to the 2020 election.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Candidates to run for the office in the 2022 election had just two weeks to file paperwork and gather signatures to qualify for the August primaries in their bid to take over one of the largest prosecutorial teams in the country.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2022
• Hayden said that his office’s decision was neither, and that to move forward with the case would have been prosecutorial misconduct.
  — Andrew Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2022
• Rittenhouse's lawyers had sought to have a mistrial declared over alleged prosecutorial misconduct and issues with a key video in the state's case.
  — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2021
• But outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last May appears to have changed the prosecutorial climate.
  — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 17 Dec. 2020
• But Trump's lawyer, Steven Sadow, said that the judge had not given enough credence to evidence of prosecutorial misconduct.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
• Cheney did not say what the committee, which does not have prosecutorial powers, intends to do with the information.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2022
• The County Attorney's Office is the third largest prosecutorial office in the country.
  — Lauren Castle, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2020
• Her attorney has requested a new trial claiming prosecutorial and juror misconduct.
  — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2024
• Harris’ prosecutorial background informs her world view Harris’ foreign policy developed through her work on intelligence and cyber security.
  — Asma Khalid, NPR, 7 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024