A government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state.
1The information is a written accusation filed in court by the prosecuting officer.
2The judge-advocate of a court-martial is the prosecuting officer.
3Avery could feel it, like the stare of a prosecuting officer at a court martial.
4The prosecuting officer was reported as saying that:
5This point was naturally one of vehement contention between Monsieur de Grandville and the prosecuting officer.
6Why are you placed here, as prosecuting officer?
7Whereupon the prosecuting officer, the Hon.
8The prosecuting officer here closed.
9The prosecuting officer, indeed, hounded one of the prisoners through three trials, to win a final conviction after two acquittals.
10Nothing definite or convincing had as yet been proven, and the attorneys wondered at the undismayed demeanor of the prosecuting officer.
11The prosecuting officer assumes the entire responsibility of initiating the prosecution and of giving it the particular form that it may assume.
12As a prosecuting officer, he was courteous, inflexible, and just; careful that the guilty should not escape, and that the honest should be protected.
13He holds the courts and the prosecuting officers to a strict accountability.
14Grand juries, prosecuting officers, judges of criminal courts and prison wardens!
15Two were the prosecuting officers of the government, Fiscal Sylla and Fiscal van Leeuwen.
16Prosecuting officers therefore naturally prefer to proceed upon information whenever the law permits it.
Translations for prosecuting officer