Prosecutors

Prosecutors are government officials responsible for representing the state in legal proceedings, including investigating crimes, presenting evidence in court, and arguing for convictions or other legal outcomes.

Why it’s in the news: Prosecutors are in the news for high-profile cases involving international smuggling, political power struggles, and the reopening of controversial sexual assault investigations.

Latest on Prosecutors

• Venezuela’s Maduro and wife Flores tortured US citizens to stay in power: US prosecutors
• California tech CEO arrested, faces up to 20 years in prison for smuggling $300 million in Nvidia AI servers to China — federal prosecutors say chips were routed through Malaysia and Singapore using false paperwork
• South Korea’s Lee strips power from prosecutors who indicted him
• U.S. prosecutors reopen Cornell gang rape case after outcry
• US prosecutors reopen case of alleged frat house gang rape at Cornell University
• US prosecutors reopen case of alleged gang rape at Cornell University
• The mistrial, on the seventh day of deliberations, leaves the case unresolved and allows prosecutors to take the 36-year-old former labour and delivery nurse to trial again.
• a judge last August ruled that the victims..
• Despite prosecutors presenting the evidence under a law carrying up to seven years in prison or a maximum fine of 50 million won (US$35,341), a judge last August ruled that the victims..
• Japan's parliament passed a bill revising the retrial system that prohibits prosecutors from appealing court orders to initiate retrials in principle.

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