How to Use prosecutorial in a Sentence

prosecutorial

adjective
Definition of prosecutorialnext
  • Amy Klobuchar’s prosecutorial record in the state back in the spotlight.
    — Erin Corbett, refinery29.com, 1 June 2020
  • The charging stage is the first stop in the prosecutorial pathway.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2019
  • There are also points of views the prosecutorial characters have that the hedge fund folks don’t.
    — Stacey Wilson Hunt, Fortune, 1 May 2020
  • Stevens was found guilty but the corruption charges were later thrown out due to prosecutorial misconduct in the case.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • All of which goes back to the question of prosecutorial discretion.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The botched cases come amid a growing call for Adel to resign as leader of the nation's third-largest prosecutorial agency.
    — Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The junior lawyer Paxton hired for the fraught case had no prosecutorial experience, but does have ties to Wynne.
    — Jake Bleiberg, Star Tribune, 12 Oct. 2020
  • There even may have been prosecutorial misconduct—a state lawyer misleading a judge about the outcome of one of the brothers’ polygraph tests.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2024
  • His sentence was reduced to 23 years to life in prison after signs of prosecutorial misconduct emerged in his case, Price said.
    — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 16 July 2024
  • The chair is a symbol of the bigger-than-life drama and egos around hedge-fund billionaires and powerful prosecutorial foes.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2022
  • One of the things that anyone who's gone through law school learns—especially women—is how to sound prosecutorial.
    — Emily Leibert, Glamour, 29 Mar. 2023
  • But Snowden said most of the hires are new and don’t have prosecutorial experience.
    — oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Rather, the Justice Department made good on rules that bar prosecutorial meddling in elections, in stark contrast to the many mistakes made by Jim Comey in 2016.
    — Arkansas Online, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Those agents and lawyers are part of the same federal prosecutorial district as the ones who came to investigate Paxton.
    — Jake Bleiberg and Eric Tucker, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Brian Nadeau said the list mostly serves as a prosecutorial tool but agreed 22 of the listed officers shouldn’t be called to testify.
    — USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The news comes weeks after Robinson’s legal team urged the U.S. government in a letter to intervene in the case and expedite the prosecutorial process.
    — Char Adams, NBC News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The case represents the first test of Ms. Katz’s handling of claims of prosecutorial misconduct.
    — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Still, the Burrell case — and revelations about Klobuchar's prosecutorial record — seems to be plaguing her campaign, even in her home state.
    — Asia Ewart, refinery29.com, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Aware of the electoral threat posed by Harris, who's of Jamaican and Indian descent, the Trump camp has tried to undermine her through her prosecutorial past.
    — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2020
  • The whole trial was almost upended after Foxx asked for the charges to be dismissed on the grounds of prosecutorial misconduct.
    — Lily Jackson | [email protected], al, 23 Aug. 2019
  • But Vance is sixty-six, and the pressure of managing one of the highest-profile prosecutorial offices in the country has been wearying.
    — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The government’s legal case against many of the Navy officers has hit a stumbling block in the last year or so because of prosecutorial misconduct.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2024
  • This comes after weeks of scrutiny over her leadership of one of the nation’s largest prosecutorial teams.
    — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Monday's restart is the latest prosecutorial setback in the case.
    — Fox News, 20 Aug. 2019
  • If the defendant here were anyone else, there would be public outrage over the unabashed politicizing of the prosecutorial process.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 9 Sep. 2023
  • In a court filing last week, the DA’s office cited prosecutorial discretion as its reason for dropping the charges.
    — Shaddi Abusaid, ajc, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Duncan’s team argued that the case against him was the product of fraudulent science, prosecutorial chicanery, and the lies of a jailhouse informant.
    — Lara Bazelon, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The Vikings left the field without taking questions from reporters, and offered no specifics about what would constitute a fair prosecutorial process for Chauvin.
    — Ben Goessling, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The prosecutorial misstep led to the possibility of a mistrial, paving the way for Whitaker to see if prosecutors and defense lawyers could hash out plea deals.
    — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The border czar position has not in the past had prosecutorial powers, but ICE operations have often relied on creating a sense of fear in immigrant communities as a means of deterrence.
    — Rafael Bernal, The Hill, 12 Dec. 2024

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