0 a lawyer who acts for the government against someone accused of a crime in court
1 a lawyer who represents the government in a court of law:
Ugaz was named as a public prosecutor and charged with investigating the spy chief.
2 a government lawyer who decides whether someone formally accused of committing a crime should appear in court:
The public prosecutor uses fixed criteria to assess the cases.
He stirred his colleagues to hand down a sentence "worthy of the seventeenth century" in which they forced the public prosecutor 22 to concur.
He helped administer the law by acting for the crown in court as public prosecutor, collector of crown revenues, and defender of royal and government interests.
The men had told the caretaker - and this is a significant point - that they were from the office of the public prosecutor.
The judges and especially the public prosecutor had absolutely no interest in properly reinvestigating the old evidence from 1994.
Nice clearly rejected the principle of an independent public prosecutor.
Now, however, he is to go before the courts once more because the public prosecutor is appealing.
The embassy raises with the public prosecutor any problems he has concerning prison conditions.
