PROSECUTOR

Prosecutor

The prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries with either the common law adversarial system, or the civil law inquisitorial system. The prosecution is the legal party responsible for presenting the case in a criminal trial against an individual accused of breaking the law.

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prosecutor

Noun

  1. A lawyer who decides whether to charge a person with a crime and tries to prove in court that the person is guilty.
    The prosecutor got the witness to admit he was lying.


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