Criminal Law-Prosecutors
The prosecutor is a governmental employee charged with the responsibility of bringing suspects to trial. Prosecutors are attorneys. Of all the government officials that you may ever encounter, prosecutors are probably the most powerful. They have absolute discretion in deciding to prosecute an offense or not to prosecute an offense. If a murder has been committed in your hometown and a suspect has been arrested by the police, the prosecutor must decide whether the case will be taken to the next level. The decision of the local prosecutor is not subject to review by any other court officer or government employee. The only exception to that would be in the context of where a local crime involves some federal issue (e.g., violation of a federal civil rights law), then a federal prosecutor for that area may decide to prosecute for the federal violation.
