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Typically, we refer issues to the prosecutor when we find instances of misappropriation of funds, something that rises to the level of criminal activity. We don't think we saw that here. We saw places where monitoring wasn't great and bid law compliance wasn't great.

Mindy Chambers

Anything that we are able legally and morally to share with a prosecutor or authority of any country, we will be more than willing to do that.

Richard Goldstone

Most bizarre factual pattern I've seen in the nine years that I have been a prosecutor.

Tim Fleming

The prosecuting attorney dumped this case on the public when the responsibility belongs to the prosecuting attorney. Grand juries don't operate under rules of evidence, and they're going to be exposed to the evidence the prosecutor presents.

John Everett

I think this prosecutor got stuck with a rotten mackerel. He got stuck with a stinking, rotten mackerel he didn't buy.

J. Tony Serra

Just ask the violent offenders that I have successfully tried and prosecuted myself, ... Go ask them if my failing the bar had anything to with my abilities as a prosecutor. I am the most qualified candidate to be the district attorney.

Tony Castro

This woman looks like a very individual kind of person ... which I like as a person, but as a prosecutor you don't want people to stand out.

Jim Hammer

He's told everyone who's asked him, including the federal prosecutor, that he's not part of any scheme.

Robert Luskin

It's a tough role to play. You need someone who is youthful, yet is really credible as both a prosecutor and a mom.

Jonathan Littman

The prosecutor believes that the guilt of the defendants has been fully proven and asked to find them guilty on all charges.

Ruslan Koblev

The prosecutor took information into consideration and said law enforcement had probable cause to upgrade the charge.

Spencer Mann

The prosecutor says he should be executed on the basis of the constitution.

Ansarullah Mawlavizada

I felt I had a duty to warn the prosecutor.

Robert Mclaughlin

Now when you say you have cooperated with the prosecutor, does that mean, in fact, that you spoke to investigators or to the grand jury?

Chris Wallace

Although he was a career prosecutor, I don't get the sense that he, as a judge, has favored one side or another. He also is willing to make tough calls.

Mario Conte

What was described was not in my opinion expressing prosecution as the primary role of a prosecutor. Everyone has a role to play in the community, everyone has a lead role, and I would think our funding would be dictated by that.

Thomas Stith

The Denver District Attorney's Office was assigned to be the special prosecutor in regard to some criminal allegations that came from Jefferson County. The Denver District Attorney's Office has presented the allegations to the . . . Jefferson County grand jury.

Lynn Kimbrough

Today, I announce my candidacy for Marion County prosecutor and I vow to attack rising crime.

Melina Kennedy

We're not talking about torture in the abstract, but the real thing. U.S. personnel and officials may be criminally liable, and a special prosecutor is needed to investigate.

John Sifton

He said that as a prosecutor he felt the need to apologize to Mr. Marsh.

Fran Clader

Normally, when a private prosecutor is appearing, it's with the conformity of the government prosecutor. If there was no coordination between private and public prosecutors, this is not in the best interest of the complainant. You are to coordinate with the government prosecutor.

Judge Renato Dilag

OK,'' said Jim Hammer, the former San Francisco prosecutor who is now a commentator for Fox, watching the truck roll in.

Nancy Grace

That's what prompted us to pursue that case to the prosecutor. He agreed and brought charges.

Sam Pailca

Their jobs are to find out whether the fires are accidental or arson. It also includes collecting evidence, arresting the suspect and presenting the case to the prosecutor.

Richard Feast

The court said it was a simple mistake on the part of an inexperienced prosecutor. That was our position all along.

Tim Cole

It's obvious he's exploiting his job as a prosecutor for private gain. It has clouded his view of justice.

Richard Sharpstein

It's surprising to me that the prosecutor would even think about charging (Etheridge) in this case.

Randall Upshaw

[But whether Rove will be charged,] it's anybody's guess, ... We just don't know what [Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald] will do.

Bill Sammon

Only a Republican prosecutor would indict a career civil servant for pursuing a better deal for taxpayers.

Joe Wineke

The judge is the neutral objective party whose job is to weigh and measure all the surrounding circumstances and decide what's fair. By conditioning a plea, the district attorney is playing the role of both prosecutor and judge.

William Petrillo

The government has made clear it's going to do everything it can to go after terrorism, but here you have a case where it appears that hubris might have intoxicated the prosecutor, and he might have taken one step over the line.

Brian Levin

If the allegations are true, then [Clinton] is a misogynist and I question his ability to lead. If they are not true, then why is the independent prosecutor ravaging the life of a 23-year-old girl?

William Ginsburg

He's a prosecutor and I'm a chief executive. I have dealt with these issues like job creation and bringing in local business face to face.

Tom Suozzi

They're investigating this matter and the only purpose that we would have for a federal prosecutor would be the death penalty, so obviously we're concerned about that.

Richard Rich

I'm surprised, startled, disappointed. But the prosecutor has a job to do and we will be ready to hear the allegations. This is why we have preliminary examinations. I would not chastise anyone for doing their civic duty but we will be ready.

Randall Upshaw

This is a historic step, but only a first step because the prosecutor has been silent about crimes by the Ugandan Army.

Richard Dicker

You learn as a prosecutor, you get a plan, you stick to your plan, and you don't let the press and the media coverage take you off your plan, because press and media coverage is based on limited knowledge. You also have to be even more focused than you otherwise would about jury protection and jury issues, because there isn't anyone who hasn't heard about the case.

Gerard Leone

As a former federal prosecutor, David has the skills and experience necessary to root out corruption and help us maintain the highest ethical standards in city government.

Richard M. Daley

Avoid boring, conventional people like death is what we are going to do. I'd rather have someone with a facial twitch with something interesting to say than the prettiest former federal prosecutor in all of Los Angeles.

Tucker Carlson

I pretty much felt like a second prosecutor.

Rodney Barnes

[Prosecutor Mike Allen said the county protected its values and made no concessions to the Flynt.] He didn't win. He lost, ... He turned tail and ran.

Mike Allen

The prosecutor expects that Serbia will live up to its promises given to her during her last visit in Belgrade and deliver Mladic before that date.

Carla Del Ponte

The special prosecutor basically supported what we had told the Board of Elections all along.

Michael Ward

We submitted the report to the prosecutor to have him look at it. We know she has the desk and it is a matter now to determine whether it is hers.

Sheriff Scott Fewins

If the prosecutor permitted him to leave it's because he realizes there is no validity to the charging document.

Mario Joseph

The prosecutor has one point of view [of the case], the witnesses may have a different point of view.

Paul Butler

He has been a more effective questioner than some of the other Democrats. He was the prosecutor zeroing in.

Dennis Coyle

The city has received no official communication from the county prosecutor as to what his intention are, if any.

Wayne Kramer

I think that it reveals a police department that itself lost faith in the justice system and decided that they would be the judge, the jury, the prosecutor and the police officer.

Michael Judge

It sort of said we should be the standard as to what other prosecutor offices should be doing.

Jay Cairns

The prosecutor and I have seldom, if at all, experienced an investigation being potentially ruined at such an early stage.

Leif Silbersky

But what a prosecutor wants is someone in the meetings. I think someone has to have rolled over on DeLay.

David Berg

Repeatedly during discussions with the office of the prosecutor we have been squeezed. They've even made threats to involve her parents who, as far as I know, know nothing about the situation.

William Ginsburg

[The prosecutor] calls it a crime, a murder, a killing, ... I call it a medical service. Youk came to me and said, 'Please help me.' The aim was a final solution to incurable agony.

Jack Kevorkian

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

You need probable cause or 51 percent belief a person has committed a crime. Once you pass that stage, you might arrest them and hold them. Then you can continue the investigation, collect information and get paperwork done, and the prosecutor determines if a charge will be made or not. Without charges, the person has to be let go.

Kelly Stephens

He is an aggressive prosecutor. If he feels someone is lying to him, he takes it personally.

Joshua Dratel

My judgment is that simply because a prosecutor decides that one approach is more effective than another doesn't necessarily suggest some major weakness or anything other than a continuing effort to adjust the case to what appears to be the most favorable theory.

George Dix

Now, the government has set up a system where it's – save the corporation by sacrificing the individuals. The independent directors hire a law firm, which becomes in effect a deputized prosecutor. And the individual executives are sacrificed to save the corporation.

Ted Wells

We need a prosecutor who wants to be prosecutor. Not a prosecutor who'd rather be mayor.

Melina Kennedy

It's disappointing that the change of venue might diminish the satisfaction felt by the victims of his alleged crimes. The prosecutor no doubt had to balance this with pressing security needs.

Corinne Dufka

If I was a prosecutor, I'd be like a kid in a candy store, ... the harmful effect of illegal pornography by assisting in law enforcement.

Bruce Taylor

At any rate, this is a wild card indictment, ... There's a wild card prosecutor and a wild card defendant.

Mike Ramsey

[The segment opened with Kelly saying DeLay is eager for his day in court and a clip of DeLay stating emphatically] I'm innocent, and Earle (Prosecutor Ronnie Earle) knows it. ... our job is to prosecute abuses of power.

Greg Kelly

That program is for non-violent first offenders who have no criminal history. (Prosecutor) Rick (Reed) makes that final decision.

Jerry Cook

The special prosecutor has done very little in terms of developing a strategy of how to address (impunity).

Irene Khan

All kinds of political actors will be trying to spin the procedures to their own political ends in one way or another, be that the U.S. ambassador, the prime minister, the defense lawyers, the judge or the prosecutor.

Richard Dicker

There is no set standard which allows for cooperation by persons who are accused, but in past cases the judges have looked favorably on persons who are willing to cooperate with the prosecutor and are willing to cooperate with the justices.

Paul Risley

We have not received the request. He (the prosecutor) is playing games in the media. When we receive it we will respond appropriately.

Remi Oyo

This is a blatant example of overreaching by the prosecutor. These latest allegations add nothing new to the indictment and, when we are given the opportunity, they will be demonstrated to be unfounded as well.

Edward Greenspan

This is a blatant example of overreaching by the prosecutor.

Edward Greenspan