Prosecutor Quotations

He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department.

The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

They've got him - credible witnesses, documents, heaven knows what else. In all my years as a prosecutor I have never seen such an open-and-shut case.

This is a very highly charged investigation. People are very interested in this, and we've got a prosecutor, a very well respected prosecutor who's been looking at this issue, this investigation for a long time.

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor

Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world's financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.

Nobody is there to protect the cop. I think the prosecutor should also do that. In the past, it was 'Wink, wink, nod, nod; here's what I want you to look at.' But that's why states have moved away from grand juries. You should also protect the people you're trying to indict.

Only a Republican prosecutor would indict a career civil servant for pursuing a better deal for taxpayers.

No one up the chain of command has ever been held accountable for what is in these horrifying images, and no true independent commission or special prosecutor has ever been allowed to investigate.

Now that the tribunal has (former Yugoslav president Slobodan) Milosevic in the dock, the prosecutor (Carla del Ponte) is being more and more direct in her demands that the two most wanted suspects be brought in now.

If this alleged attack occurred in a manner in which described by the prosecutor and law enforcement, then there will be DNA present.

Led by a prosecutor with GOP ties, Republicans are doing their best to smear Governor Doyle, a man of utmost integrity and honesty who does not tolerate any ethical lapses in his administration.

We need a prosecutor who wants to be prosecutor. Not a prosecutor who'd rather be mayor.

Liberals stay up at night worrying about the library provisions in the Patriot Act, ... I stay up at night worried about whether we are going to have the ability to fight the war on terrorism with the same tools ... that I have had as a prosecutor to fight organized crime.

My judgment is that simply because a prosecutor decides that one approach is more effective than another doesn't necessarily suggest some major weakness or anything other than a continuing effort to adjust the case to what appears to be the most favorable theory,

She will talk at the appropriate time in a public forum when there isn't a biased prosecutor like there is right now.

I explained to Chairman Burton that I had made no decision on these recommendations yet, ... To ask for a document I am reviewing while I have still not made a decision is a form of political tampering that no prosecutor in America can accept.

If a mother truly does follow the provisions of the law, I think it's very unlikely a prosecutor will file charges. If the baby's safe -- I think that's all they care about.

But what a prosecutor wants is someone in the meetings. I think someone has to have rolled over on DeLay.

Today, I announce my candidacy for Marion County prosecutor and I vow to attack rising crime.

When I ran for a third term as Honolulu prosecutor I feel I committed to serving that term. I need to finish my tour of duty as prosecutor, that's the bottom line.

We submitted the report to the prosecutor to have him look at it. We know she has the desk and it is a matter now to determine whether it is hers.

If the allegations are true, then (Clinton) is a misogynist, and I question his ability to lead. If they are not true, then why is the independent prosecutor ravaging the life of a 23-year-old girl?

I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.

starting to undermine the prosecutor by implying that he's only going to be able to indict on technicalities.

Our media seem to be waiting for Fitzgerald to do all the work. What if during Watergate we left things up to Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox?

Our lawyers have interpreted when you add the word 'assist,' it could mean anything from providing soup in a soup kitchen, to letting someone stay a night, to giving someone water. A prosecutor could use that language to come after you.

I think that it reveals a police department that itself lost faith in the justice system and decided that they would be the judge, the jury, the prosecutor and the police officer.

It is a sad, sad situation to be in this courtroom in this country hearing a prosecutor saying to a jury that one of the things he relies upon is that Mr. Thomas thought about something.

I think the work of the special prosecutor losses some significance when most of the cases are cases that have links to organized crime and drug trafficking.

Repeatedly during discussions with the office of the prosecutor we have been squeezed. They've even made threats to involve her parents who, as far as I know, know nothing about the situation.

Today's witness, Kenneth W. Starr, wrote the tawdry, salacious and unnecessarily graphic referral that he delivered to us in September with so much drama and fanfare. And now the majority members of this committee have called that same prosecutor forward to testify in an unprecedented desperation effort to breathe new life into a dying inquiry.

Typically, we refer issues to the prosecutor when we find instances of misappropriation of funds, something that rises to the level of criminal activity. We don't think we saw that here. We saw places where monitoring wasn't great and bid law compliance wasn't great.

The American public will know if this is a violation of the law or a prosecutor abusing his power.

will not call into question the accuracy or completeness of anything Rove has previously said to the prosecutor or the grand jury.

Why was the lead prosecutor participating in a field search during a multimillion-dollar investigation? What are the odds that he finds this needle in the haystack? Other field searches were previously conducted and even metal detectors were utilized, but on this day, he somehow was the one to 'plant' - I mean find this evidence?

There are more important things to do. And courts don't want to waste time and they'll say, 'work something out.'. . . And the prosecutor doesn't want to go after the fire company. It's not worth police energy. It would solve matters if they could clean up the legislation.

This prosecutor may have new information that may contradict prior testimony or may have questions about prior testimony, may simply seek a clarification. I'm not going to try to speculate what the motivation is behind Mr. Fitzgerald in asking a return by any witness. But there are a variety of reasons that someone might be called back to answer additional questions before a grand jury.

We have a prosecutor related to three victims, a judge related to a brother who was an interested person. I don't think I've ever seen this happen before.

There is a well-established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation and a special prosecutor be appointed.

The prosecuting attorney dumped this case on the public when the responsibility belongs to the prosecuting attorney. Grand juries don't operate under rules of evidence, and they're going to be exposed to the evidence the prosecutor presents.

The prosecutor and I have seldom, if at all, experienced an investigation being potentially ruined at such an early stage.

The prosecutor decided to drop the case and the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate Court agreed.

The prosecutor expects that Serbia will live up to its promises given to her during her last visit in Belgrade and deliver Mladic before that date,

The prosecutor has pursued it relentlessly and we'll see how it plays out,

The prosecutor is probably still trying to pressure some of the players to turn, getting more info from the victim and looking at more forensic evidence.

The prosecutor is satisfied. It is a good sentence.

The prosecutor took information into consideration and said law enforcement had probable cause to upgrade the charge.

The prosecutor wants David to be the shooter. The defense lawyer wants David to be the shooter, so it wasn't that hard to figure out. What you're seeing is all anti-David. It's hard for our family.

The pending prosecution is not about the guilt or innocence of the defendants. This is about lies perpetrated by a federal prosecutor and a federal agent, as alleged in the indictment. It's about perjury and the integrity and fairness of the judicial system.

We're not talking about torture in the abstract, but the real thing. U.S. personnel and officials may be criminally liable, and a special prosecutor is needed to investigate.

When a prosecutor walks into court and says we've been investigating this case for two and a half years, grand jury investigation for nine months, and we have 51 witnesses, you know what that means -- they have a circumstantial evidence case, and I suggest it's a weak circumstantial evidence case.

The Denver District Attorney's Office was assigned to be the special prosecutor in regard to some criminal allegations that came from Jefferson County. The Denver District Attorney's Office has presented the allegations to the . . . Jefferson County grand jury.

The fact that the prosecutor hasn't told me what they are and wants him in custody before he tells me leads me to believe it includes state racketeering charges.

The real question is who is the independent prosecutor who is liberated to pursue these cases. There is no central prosecution office run by commanders. So you don't have a D.A. thinking, I'm going to follow this wherever it leads.

We don't believe he's a flight risk but we do understand the nature of the charges. They're very serious and the prosecutor has every right to request bail in that amount.

I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim,

Was there a 12-hour shredding party at the White House that night? ... We don't know, but I hope that the prosecutor examines this troubling disclosure.

Crime labs should be an independent force within the criminal-justice system, not beholden to the prosecutor or the defense.

Be wary, be wary, of the prosecutor who feels it necessary to deceive the court,

When I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted. Whether or not it actually happens, it changes a culture, and that's part of what we're trying to do here.

Even though common sense tells us that a piece of evidence doesn't need to be examined, we'll usually examine it anyway. If we find clothing with a rust stain on it, we need to look to see if it might be blood. A prudent prosecutor is not going to take the chance.

We feel very strong, all the evidence is very clear and very significant. Of course this very much depends on the prosecutor and the judge but what we have been doing so far on the police side is very strong.

I simply have to draw the line and stand up for what I believe to be a very important principle: Prosecutions in America must be free of political influence. To ask for a document I am reviewing, while I have still not made a decision, is a form of political tampering that no prosecutor in America can accept.

The special prosecutor basically supported what we had told the Board of Elections all along,

The special prosecutor has done very little in terms of developing a strategy of how to address (impunity).

When I worked as a prosecutor in Richmond, Virginia in the 1990s, that city, like so much of America, was experiencing horrific levels of violent crime. But to describe it that way obscures an important truth: for the most part, white people weren't dying; black people were dying. Most white people could drive around the problem.

There is no set standard which allows for cooperation by persons who are accused, but in past cases the judges have looked favorably on persons who are willing to cooperate with the prosecutor and are willing to cooperate with the justices.

This woman looks like a very individual kind of person ... which I like as a person, but as a prosecutor you don't want people to stand out.

No prosecutor would accept that from an ordinary witness. You'd get a subpoena the next day and ask specific, pointed questions until you got answers, or you'd indict the guy.

One can only wonder what message the U.S. attorney was thinking of sending to other executives who engage in such behavior. It is indeed rare that a federal prosecutor would stand shoulder to shoulder with the defense counsel of an admitted felon who bilked investors of over $3 billion, and against the advocate for investors, the SEC.

A written agreement will guarantee that the prosecutor will ask the court to give credit, give a discount, reduce the sentence because of the cooperation. For the first time that will be enforceable in this sense: that if the person promises to cooperate and the court sentences on that basis and they don't cooperate, you can go back to court and get the sentence reviewed.

That's horrifying. When I was a prosecutor from 1981 to 1989, I never heard of secret dockets.

They say a clever prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich if he gets the right grand jury, ... Was this sort of a setup?

This guy, every day, deals with some of the most important issues facing the American people. You're asking him to recollect conversations, some fairly short, and he's giving his best recollections. Maybe he didn't remember correctly, but he didn't have the intent to deceive the special prosecutor or grand jury.

This happens from time to time, ... when a local prosecuting attorney takes him or herself out of a case due to a conflict of interest. Then, many times, we'll be asked to step in as a special prosecutor in the case.

Those accused of crimes -- be it civilian or law enforcement officer -- have a right to a fair and independent evaluation of the evidence by a public prosecutor who will make a filing decision based solely on the evidence and not on public opinion.

This activity was, in fact, a completely lawful exercise, and the board should reject any suggestion that it impose (a) civil penalty or refer for prosecutor this matter.

Your job as a prosecutor is to get a conviction, just as your job as a defense attorney is to get an acquittal,

You need probable cause or 51 percent belief a person has committed a crime. Once you pass that stage, you might arrest them and hold them. Then you can continue the investigation, collect information and get paperwork done, and the prosecutor determines if a charge will be made or not. Without charges, the person has to be let go.

You're not a prosecutor unless you've got your own issues with evil.

I'm surprised, startled, disappointed. But the prosecutor has a job to do and we will be ready to hear the allegations. This is why we have preliminary examinations. I would not chastise anyone for doing their civic duty but we will be ready.

If the prosecutor permitted him to leave it's because he realizes there is no validity to the charging document.

OK,'' said Jim Hammer, the former San Francisco prosecutor who is now a commentator for Fox, watching the truck roll in.

As some House Republicans tell it, their vote today to change party rules was not just about protecting Tom DeLay. They say it was about taking power away from a Democratic prosecutor who they believe may be eager to indict their majority leader.

At any rate, this is a wild card indictment, ... There's a wild card prosecutor and a wild card defendant.

It's rather unusual that any prosecutor would pass up the opportunity to grab an absolute key, central witness that's in plain sight.

It sort of said we should be the standard as to what other prosecutor offices should be doing.

It's disappointing that the change of venue might diminish the satisfaction felt by the victims of his alleged crimes. The prosecutor no doubt had to balance this with pressing security needs.

In a civilized country the justice minister, attorney general and state prosecutor should have been immediately sent off. A week after they backed the decision, they are now trying to overrun the Arab public's will by using a dirty trick.

In the normal back-and-forth between prosecutor and defense attorneys, some issues were raised that made the prosecutor step back and have pause for thought as far as his future activities, ... He thought, 'This is enough for me to hold off making decisions.'

Clearly, there is more to this story than what has been made public; than what defense attorneys or the prosecutor have disclosed. There has to be because what has been talked about publicly is a terribly weak case; one that even an eager grand jury would not have embraced the way this one did.

He said that as a prosecutor he felt the need to apologize to Mr. Marsh.

He's a prosecutor and I'm a chief executive. I have dealt with these issues like job creation and bringing in local business face to face.

They'll threaten to take the check to the prosecutor and have you arrested for writing a hot check.

Anything that we are able legally and morally to share with a prosecutor or authority of any country, we will be more than willing to do that,

A prosecutor usually wants someone charged when a grand jury is used. But it may be simply a matter of wanting public confidence that you're making the right decision.

The Bush administration must appoint a special prosecutor to examine these abuses, and Congress should set up an independent, bipartisan panel to investigate.