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The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author. -- Scott Turow
I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney. -- Star Jones
I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims. -- Nancy Grace
I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch. -- Bob Woodward
I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt. -- Janet Reno
When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Ford became the 38th president of the United States, the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office, of which I was a member, was preparing for the criminal trials of Nixon's top aides - H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell. -- Richard Ben-Veniste
A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor -- Donella Meadows
A prosecutor's job is to file the evidence wherever it takes us. -- Kevin Steele
Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to. -- Chuck Robb
There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president. -- Donella Meadows
I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors... who specialize in terrorism. -- Barack Obama
If you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail. -- Lynne Stewart
I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life. -- John F. Kerry
When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can wake up every day and believe in what you're doing. -- Preet Bharara
You can be a career professional as a judge, a prosecutor, sometimes as a defense attorney, and never insist on fairness and justice. That's tragic and that's what we have to change. -- Bryan Stevenson
It's not a cost of doing business when the corporation executives go to jail, and that's why they fight so hard to make sure the prosecutors' budget are very limited and that the campaign cash-greased lawmakers keep defending them against being held accountable. -- Ralph Nader
When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers. -- William Kunstler
Anne Marie Smith flew to Washington to tell prosecutors about Gary Condit's attempt to get her to deny their affair. It looks bad. If it's found he lied about the intern and the mistresses, he could get 4-8 years in the White House. -- Argus Hamilton
We have people across this country who are scared to death. Because I could tell you this, as a former federal prosecutor, if a center for the developmentally disabled in San Bernardino, California, is now a target for terrorists, that means everywhere in America is a target for these terrorists. -- Chris Christie
A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian. If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system? -- Russell Simmons
I am asking my Attorney General to create a special unit of federal prosecutors and leading state attorneys general to expand our investigations into the abusive lending and packaging of risky mortgages that led to the housing crisis. This new unit will hold accountable those who broke the law, speed assistance to homeowners, and help turn the page on an era of recklessness that hurt so many Americans. -- Barack Obama
I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years. -- Louis J. Freeh
As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America. -- Tom Rooney
I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate. -- Eric Holder
My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not. -- Sonia Sotomayor
They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an open-and-shut case. -- Elliot Richardson
One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it. -- Roy Barnes
Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor. -- Amy Klobuchar
As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job. -- Nancy Grace
When I was a young prosecutor, I got called to testify against my boss. I could have backed down, but I didn't. I stood up to him. And he fired me for it. -- Susana Martinez
I worked as a prosecutor watching Catholic priests charged with sex abuse and saw firsthand how the 'circle the wagons' mentality revictimized the innocent, coddled the guilty, and made matters worse for everyone. -- Christine Pelosi
Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments. -- Harold H. Greene
After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. -- Eliot Spitzer
If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth. -- Alan Dershowitz
The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this. -- Barbara Olson
He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department. -- Bill Scott
I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime. -- Susana Martinez
I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. -- John Bolton
I would never know how good I was if I didn't have Bob Arum. Bob Arum is white, Jewish; He was working for prosecutor's office. I'm black, an ex-convict, ex-number runner. Who would be most likely to succeed? It would be Bob 100-1. Yet I beat Bob on everything we ever done, with love. -- Don King
When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court. -- Claire McCaskill
As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear. -- Eliot Spitzer
The prosecutor have a problem distinguishing from megabits and megabytes. -- Peter Sunde
I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years. -- Louis J. Freeh
A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor. -- Donella Meadows
A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims. -- Thomas Jefferson
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I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs. -- Dan Gelber
President-Elect [Donald] Trump has not ruled out seeking a special prosecutor for Hillary Clinton, says he has other priorities. -- George Stephanopoulos
When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys. -- Christine Pelosi
As a former federal prosecutor, I welcome the opportunity to hold Hillary Rodham Clinton accountable for her performance and her character. -- Chris Christie
There is a well-established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation and a special prosecutor be appointed. -- Jay Nixon
I was prosecutor for 18 years. I was threatened by drug dealers, murders, and organized crime. This was a walk in the park. -- Tom Marino
The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance. -- Philip Guston
I'm going to have a special prosecutor. We're going to enforce the trade deals we have, and we're going to hold people accountable. -- Hillary Clinton
They're all the same-- the cop, the criminal, the defense, the prosecutor-- they all share a fundamental belief in the malleability of truth -- Louise Erdrich
I am a prosecutor in my bones. When I see something, I immediately go to: how is this going to affect a child? -- Kamala Harris
I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore. -- Nancy Grace
I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box. -- Sergio De La Pava
I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. -- John Bolton
I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle. -- Gary Locke
One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it -- Roy Barnes
I'm a former federal prosecutor, I've fought terrorists and won and when we get back in the White House we will fight terrorists and win again and America will be safe. -- Chris Christie
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In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head of the colony, Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov, instantly made conditions at the camp unbearable. -- Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

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