In common law, the principle of prosecutorial discretion allows public prosecutors a wide latitude to decide whether or not to charge a person for a crime...

RECASTING PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION. Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology. 86, 3, 717, 1996. ISSN 0091-4169. "What is the definition of abuse of discretion? |...

case and instead to dismiss the charges [fr]. This principle of prosecutorial discretion in France is more similar to what is seen in common law countries...

threat to the rule of law. This concept is closely related to prosecutorial discretion. There is a divide between countries where prosecutions are inherently...

"to be unwilling to pursue". It is a type of prosecutorial discretion in common law, used for prosecutors' declarations that they are voluntarily ending...

First Circuit held in a 2019 decision that a prosecutor is not entitled to absolute prosecutorial discretion when performing purely administrative functions...

memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security titled "Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children"...

not constitute administrative action under PAJA, the exercise of prosecutorial discretion by the National Prosecuting Authority is subject to review under...

dissenting opinions have addressed issues of judicial authority and prosecutorial discretion. Kitchens is running for a third term on the Mississippi Supreme...

chambers, a commerce chamber, a labour chamber, a criminal chamber, a prosecutorial service and various other bodies. The Court usually rules in panels...

finding of prosecutorial misconduct, although a 2013 investigation found that actual discipline for prosecutorial misconduct was lacking. Prosecutors are also...

High Court stated that these two provisions expressly separate the prosecutorial function from the judicial function, and that they are coequal. As such...

Judicial discretion is the power of the judiciary to make some legal decisions according to their discretion. Under the doctrine of the separation of...

Prosecutorial vindictiveness occurs where a prosecutor retaliates against a defendant for exercising a constitutional or statutory right by increasing...

similarities with a prosecutor's decision of whether or not to bring charges, which is covered by the doctrine of prosecutorial discretion. The court rejected...

deferred action. Judge Carolyn Dineen King dissented, arguing that prosecutorial discretion makes the case non-justiciable, and that there had been "no justification"...

on prosecutorial discretion that would subsequently be widely referred to as the "Morton memo", "2011 Morton memo", and "prosecutorial discretion memo...

permanent resident children. Wadhia, Shoba S. (2010). "The role of prosecutorial discretion in immigration law". Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal. 9:...

Attorney-General of Singapore's role as the Public Prosecutor is done by the AGC's Crime Division. Prosecutorial discretion grants AGC the power to institute, conduct...

rolled out prosecutorial discretion to Assistant Prosecutors, established the Trafficking Unit and the Hate Crimes Unit, re-engaged the Prosecutor’s Office...

proceedings. The policy expands the Department of Homeland Security's prosecutorial discretion policy, focusing finite resources on criminals and other threats...

that they have violated the rule are to be identified) Lack of prosecutorial discretion (for every plausibly accused person, it is determined whether the...

incident described Alba's actions as self defense. Bragg, in his prosecutorial discretion, charged Alba with murder and requested bail at $500,000. The judge...

degree of judicial discretion, and the executive branch also has various discretionary powers including prosecutorial discretion. The July 1, 2024, Trump...

usually takes into account age and severity of offense Prosecutorial Discretion: Prosecutors have the authority to file cases in juvenile court or criminal...

leave of absence as of 2023. Her research focuses on the role of prosecutorial discretion in immigration law and the intersections of race, national security...

Security Janet Napolitano on June 15, 2012, entitled “Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children...

of forum is prosecutorial discretion under Heckler v. Chaney, though there is no precedent that applies unreviewable Heckler discretion to an agency's...

of the United States Eric Holder, helping create guidelines on prosecutorial discretion on indictments and sentencing recommendations. Farhadian Weinstein...

Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), a political appointee, used her prosecutorial discretion to dismiss all charges filed by NATCA. The United States Court...