Prosecutorial discretion is when a prosecutor has the power to decide whether or not to charge a person for a crime and which criminal charges to file.
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One defense of current law starts with the proposition that federal criminal law is the tail of criminal enforcement and that everything other than cases involving drug offenses immigration and weapons charges lies at the tail of federal enforcement.
Although the commonwealth s attorneys had done this historically throughout virginia a recent court case foundthey cannot order all cases for a certain crime to be dropped within their jurisdiction.
The center square the virginia senate passed legislation friday that would expand prosecutorial discretion and other criminal justice reforms.
Prosecutors exercise unfettered discretion deciding who to charge with a crime what charges to file when to drop the charges whether or not to plea bargain and how to allocate prosecutorial resources.
Prosecutorial discretion as an elected or appointed official the prosecutor is the most powerful official in the criminal justice system.
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The prosecutorial discretion bill would allow commonwealth s attorneys to drop certain cases such as marijuana possession.
This is the first ever study that takes the reader through all the key stages of the proscecutor s decision making process.
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Senate bill 5033 would allow prosecutors to drop cases and craft deals that guarantee a reduction or a dismissal of a charge based on a defendant s decision to seek rehabilitation treatment or.
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Prosecutorial discretion in the military is a collaborative process.
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