In practice, the public prosecutors sought the death penalty in fewer than 5% of the cases.
Under the new system, public prosecutors are to be appointed, with independent powers of investigation.
Public prosecutors and defense lawyers in the special fast-track court finished presenting their case in the court last week.
Officials from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office and police entered Olympus offices in Tokyo today, the company confirmed in a statement.
But, given the alliance of private and public prosecutors that this and future presidents may face, a rethink may be in order.
Enthusiasm for strengthening Europol, a pan-EU police agency, and Eurojust, which brings together European public prosecutors, has been diminished, says a senior official.
Public prosecutors have demanded that the five suspects be charged under the Indian Penal Code with crimes including murder, gang rape, robbery and kidnapping.
Although Bolivia's chief of police, Walter Osinaga, is confident, public prosecutors are privately worried that they will not get enough police support to carry out prosecutions successfully.
Katsuhiko Kumazaki, the head of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors office, probed into corruption at the Ministry of Finance and in the banking industry in 1997 and netted several indictments.
The terms of what makes up a "public authority" have not been defined in the Act, but will include government departments, local authorities, police, prison, immigration officers, public prosecutors and courts.
But the attorney general sought to assure the public that prosecutors are investigating the anthrax case diligently.
Behind-the-scenes maneuvering erupted into a public quarrel between prosecutors and the defense over Holmes' public offer to plead guilty, but the two sides could still come to an agreement that would spare Holmes's life in exchange for spending the rest of his life in prison.
The public statements of prosecutors on both sides of the Atlantic also contain some inconsistencies.
Edwards also manipulated Young and others to help keep the affair out of public view, prosecutors said.
In a statement, Alison Levitt QC, principal legal adviser to the Director of Public Prosecutions, said prosecutors had been considering whether to bring charges against two journalists over alleged phone hacking.
Jose Pimentel, also known as Muhammad Yusuf, according to the criminal complaint, had a "very active and very public online profile, " prosecutors said.
When inaction followed, Mr. Lawsky's team contacted the prosecutors to make sure a public disclosure wouldn't disrupt a criminal investigation.
This guidance asks prosecutors to consider whether the public interest served by the conduct in question outweighs the overall criminality before bringing criminal proceedings.
Prosecutors in the case expect a public defender will be appointed to Dowdy's case later Monday.
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For starters, the pressures on prosecutors to be overly aggressive are public pressures, vox populi filtered through elected and appointed officials.
Prosecutors are wired to protect the public and punish the guilty.
Thus, as the Court announced the dawn of corporate criminal liability in Americawith an embrace of tort law, it simultaneously signaled to generations of prosecutors that arguments of necessity and public policy would, in the realm of corporate crime at least, carry great sway.
Prosecutors said the former congressman betrayed the public trust.
The bid was never offered to a public tender, costing Egypt huge amounts of money, prosecutors said.
He was one of the first prosecutors to use the perp walk as a public-relations weapon against white-collar criminals, who traditionally had been allowed to present themselves before the court for arraignment.
One popular tactic prosecutors have used against bosses is to contrast their public statements about the health of their company with evidence that suggests they privately knew it was in trouble.
She thanked police and prosecutors for their "brilliance throughout" and the general public for their "unwavering support and belief".
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That prompted an angry response from prosecutors, who called it an attempt to gin up public support for a plea deal.
Three men, one of them Mr Donaldson, were arrested at the time - but late in 2005 prosecutors said they were dropping all charges "in the public interest".
Prosecutors argued Kiriakou was merely seeking to increase his fame and public stature by trading on his insider knowledge.
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