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Public prosecutor   /pˈəblɪk prˈɑsɪkjˌutər/   Listen
Public prosecutor

noun
1.
A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state.  Synonyms: prosecuting attorney, prosecuting officer, prosecutor.






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"Public prosecutor" Quotes from Famous Books



... Merlin was having his way. An anonymous denunciation against Droulde had reached the Public Prosecutor that day. Tinville and Merlin were the fastest of friends, so the latter easily obtained the privilege of being the first to proclaim to his hated enemy, ...
— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... will have to humble yourselves to them. Your son was always with this young girl, and in this point lies the sole hope of his deliverance. The very evening on which the public prosecutor avers that he attended a meeting of the conspirators, he was possibly visiting her. If this is a fact, if she declares that he remained with her that night, if her father and her mother, if the rival of Jules confirm the testimony—we shall then have ground ...
— Pamela Giraud • Honore de Balzac

... agent for the missionary societies, and of using muskets and gunpowder as articles of traffic with the natives of the Pacific. The judge advocate in this instance was said to attempt to shelter the offender by the influence of his three-fold office—as the law adviser of the governor, the public prosecutor, and member of the court of criminal jurisdiction. His reluctance to admit the evidence, and to take the preliminary steps in the prosecution, and his direction to deliver an inoperative verdict, were held fatal evidences that impartiality ...
— The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2) • John West

... beaten to death or thrown into the flames, and many women were violated. A private investigation carried on subsequently brought out more than twenty cases of rape committed on Jewish girls and married women. Only two of the sufferers confessed their misfortune to the public prosecutor. The others admitted their disgrace in private or concealed it altogether, for fear of ...
— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow

... well with whom they are dealing. They know to the full the seriousness with which I conceive of my duties. I consider my office in the light of a sacred calling. [Pause.] I have reduced my report to the public prosecutor to writing. If I send it off at noon to-day, the command of arrest can reach us ...
— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume I • Gerhart Hauptmann


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