0 relating to the process of prosecuting someone for (= officially accusing them of) a crime:
the process by which the Justice Department makes prosecutorial decisions (= decisions to prosecute)
evidence of prosecutorial misconduct (= wrong behaviour by the prosecutor)
Of this sample of juveniles, 23% were transferred to criminal court by judicial waiver, 34% by prosecutorial discretion, and 41.6% by statutory exclusion.
The document is intended solely as a guide to the exercise of investigative and prosecutorial discretion and as guidance on resource allocation and federal priorities.
The report also said the public nature of the snafu had set back prosecutorial efforts by several years.
Deferred action is a discretionary determination to defer removal action of an individual as an act of prosecutorial discretion.
On the other hand, the present case concerned the constitutionality of prosecutorial discretion.
The defendant will instead be an official such as the postal inspectors, who may have influenced the prosecutorial decision but did not make it.
He chaired interim committees on pharmaceutical liability, retitling of manufactured homes and consolidation of judicial and prosecutorial districts.
The report's analysis of the problem of establishing criminal responsibility contributed to the prosecutorial strategy.
