Mr Starmer said that many suspects in this last category would be unlikely to be prosecuted because it would not be in the public interest to take them to court.
The BBC's Danny Shaw said Pc Harwood's misconduct hearing would not be the first to be held in public, but it is believed to be the first in London.
Although there was sufficient evidence to bring a prosecution, Mr Starmer explained, he did not deem it to be in the public interest.
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The Metropolitan Police (Met) wanted to withhold it on the grounds it would not be in the public interest to reveal it and argued it should have immunity from disclosure.
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The Crown Prosecution Service said a public order charge would be more appropriate but as this does not carry a custodial sentence it would not be in the public interest to proceed.
Mr Annan told me he did not want the deliberations to be conducted in public: he wanted the two teams to be able to work out a way forward in discreet discussions overseen by the Eminent Africans panel.
The right to family life is not absolute (unlike the right not to be tortured) but may yield in the public interest, including safety and economic well-being.
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We will see - there are plenty more economic and environmental points to be made - and the over-arching argument to be had about whether or not public transport in itself is compatible with the rugged individualism of the American way.
Initially, the service is to operate in a testing mode, and not be available to the public at large.
Although some congressional Democratic strategists are ambivalent about Gore's legal crusade, for fear of a backlash in the 2002 elections, party activists are so strongly behind Gore that it's not in the interest of congressional leaders to be anything but fully supportive in public.
Results from the autopsies on Michael and Thelma King will be discussed by prosecutors and police, but they will not be released to the public "in the interest of the investigation, " the public prosecutor's office said Monday.
Justice Kagan and the two justices who joined her concurrence considered a trained drug-detection dog to be a device not in general public use, and on those grounds would have found its use unconstitutional in light of Kyllo.
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Veterans and some in the military argue the public may not be ready to handle seeing more female troops come home in body bags or with lost limbs.
But that would rile the European Commission, whose rules do not allow such proceeds to be used in calculating the public deficit.
My advice: at the next election, the issue will not only be who is trusted to invest in our public services, vital though that is.
The statue of her carved by Antonio Canova, in which she insisted on being depicted naked as a goddess of love, caused the cardinal so much embarrassment that he not only refused to allow it to be displayed in public, but would only show it to close acquaintances by torchlight.
And more importantly, unlike the 2009 stress tests whose results were given to the contestants in private to make public or not, this year all results will be made public.
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But they expect serious scientific and public-policy issues to be properly assessed, not massaged away by slick marketing and public relations in the interests of private profit.
So beware the next avalanche of tech IPOs that are going to be marketed in a manner not conducive for public appetite.
Ch Insp Craig Dibdin said although the public were not thought to be in any danger, officers would remain in the area while searches continue of the property where Mr Jones was found.
And, when that happens, in any public school in America, suddenly there's not a mirror to be found.
England needs to come to the devolution party too and as we approach the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta in 2015 there couldn't be a better time to generate public interest throughout the Union not just in our constitutional heritage but in settling the democratic future of the United Kingdom.
Notably, the Alabama law as written allows students to be questioned on their immigration status, though this information was not intended to deny them enrollment in public schools.
We also need to be careful, in our excitement about the technology, not to over-hype it to a skeptical public.
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He does not want public faith in census statistics to be undermined by partisan bickering over the methods that produced them.
It is not our customary method of Customer Relations to be so public in how we work through these situations, but with so many people involved in the occurrence, you also should be involved in the solution.
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Engineer Phillip Vann, who lives in Port Pendennis, close to the docks, said he did not think "risks should be taken with the public in general".
"It's not going to be done and shouldn't be done in piecemeal public releases, " he said.
However, Shanghai Morning Post's editorial and a commentary in Beijing News ask the public not to be over-excited.
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Many of the proposed improvements in teacher education and evaluation, student assessment, and school design in traditional public schools do not seem to be novel.
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