"I told you you weren't late," the deputy
prosecutor was saying at the moment when Levin moved aside to let the lady pass.
The public
prosecutor rose and said that it was within his knowledge, through a conversation held with Judge Driscoll on the last day of his life, that counsel for the defense had brought him a challenge from the person charged at the bar with murder; that he had refused to fight with a confessed assassin-- "that is, on the field of honor," but had added significantly, that would would be ready for him elsewhere.
Charles Evremonde, called Darnay, was accused by the public
prosecutor as an emigrant, whose life was forfeit to the Republic, under the decree which banished all emigrants on pain of Death.
'The
prosecutor was reading, was he?' inquired Fang, after another pause.
There were three young women in adjoining cells, all convicted at the same time of a conspiracy to rob their
prosecutor. In the silence and solitude of their lives they had grown to be quite beautiful.
And it's not at all the thing for the
prosecutor to let himself be carried away by notions: here I have Nikolay on my hands with actual evidence against him--you may think what you like of it, but it's evidence.
I told him, "that in the kingdom of Tribnia, (3) by the natives called Langdon, (4) where I had sojourned some time in my travels, the bulk of the people consist in a manner wholly of discoverers, witnesses, informers, accusers,
prosecutors, evidences, swearers, together with their several subservient and subaltern instruments, all under the colours, the conduct, and the pay of ministers of state, and their deputies.
This can never be tied down by such strict rules, either in the delineation of the offense by the
prosecutors, or in the construction of it by the judges, as in common cases serve to limit the discretion of courts in favor of personal security.
They shall be my
prosecutors, and I will sum up their words in an affidavit: 'Socrates is an evil-doer, and a curious person, who searches into things under the earth and in heaven, and he makes the worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the aforesaid doctrines to others.' Such is the nature of the accusation: it is just what you have yourselves seen in the comedy of Aristophanes (Aristoph., Clouds.), who has introduced a man whom he calls Socrates, going about and saying that he walks in air, and talking a deal of nonsense concerning matters of which I do not pretend to know either much or little--not that I mean to speak disparagingly of any one who is a student of natural philosophy.
In lots of newsrooms, the shorthand for the criminal justice beat is "cops and courts." That traditional label says a lot by what it fails to mention--the
prosecutor. My painfully slow epiphany is that
prosecutors are the linchpin of the criminal justice system.
1) Bernales, Dexter Apostol, Bohol - Assistant Provincial
ProsecutorChief
Prosecutor of the Tuzla Canton Tomislav Ljubic and acting
prosecutor in connection with the alleged crime in the 'Global Ispat Koksna Industrija' d.o.o.
