How to Use prosecutorial in a Sentence

prosecutorial

adjective
  • Bove will now shift from that prosecutorial role to the appeals court.
    Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 31 July 2025
  • There are also points of views the prosecutorial characters have that the hedge fund folks don’t.
    Stacey Wilson Hunt, Fortune, 1 May 2020
  • The charging stage is the first stop in the prosecutorial pathway.
    Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Amy Klobuchar’s prosecutorial record in the state back in the spotlight.
    Erin Corbett, refinery29.com, 1 June 2020
  • But from the start, some questioned whether there was prosecutorial overreach.
    Mitch Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
  • There was no new witness, just good diligent police work and prosecutorial work.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Her prosecutorial record, however, could still haunt her on the campaign trail.
    Emily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Stevens was found guilty but the corruption charges were later thrown out due to prosecutorial misconduct in the case.
    Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • All of which goes back to the question of prosecutorial discretion.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2022
  • One of the things that anyone who's gone through law school learns—especially women—is how to sound prosecutorial.
    Emily Leibert, Glamour, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Monday’s restart is the latest prosecutorial setback in the case.
    Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Monday's restart is the latest prosecutorial setback in the case.
    Fox News, 20 Aug. 2019
  • But Snowden said most of the hires are new and don’t have prosecutorial experience.
    oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2022
  • This comes after weeks of scrutiny over her leadership of one of the nation’s largest prosecutorial teams.
    Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The problem isn’t the use of data or science to support prosecutorial policies.
    Charles "cully" Stimson/the Heritage Foundation, Boston Herald, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The chair is a symbol of the bigger-than-life drama and egos around hedge-fund billionaires and powerful prosecutorial foes.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2022
  • There even may have been prosecutorial misconduct—a state lawyer misleading a judge about the outcome of one of the brothers’ polygraph tests.
    Seyward Darby, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2024
  • If there’s a sliver of doubt or faulty prosecutorial strategy, it will be perceived as an agenda to railroad a Black man.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2025
  • But, as loud and garish as this announcement was, the whole matter simply reeks of prosecutorial overreach and show-pony justice.
    Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 30 Sep. 2017
  • The Parole Board does not have a member with a prosecutorial background.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 23 June 2026
  • The botched cases come amid a growing call for Adel to resign as leader of the nation's third-largest prosecutorial agency.
    Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The junior lawyer Paxton hired for the fraught case had no prosecutorial experience, but does have ties to Wynne.
    Jake Bleiberg, Star Tribune, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Those agents and lawyers are part of the same federal prosecutorial district as the ones who came to investigate Paxton.
    Jake Bleiberg and Eric Tucker, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The same system that used its prosecutorial discretion to charge him with dozens of felonies when his opponents were let off the hook for similar offenses.
    Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2024
  • If the defendant here were anyone else, there would be public outrage over the unabashed politicizing of the prosecutorial process.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Prosecutorial liberalism is the dream that the messiness of politics can be replaced with the moral clarity of a cop show.
    Jeet Heer, New Republic, 19 June 2017
  • His sentence was reduced to 23 years to life in prison after signs of prosecutorial misconduct emerged in his case, Price said.
    Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 16 July 2024
  • Ayala sued Scott to get the cases back, arguing that taking the cases away was a blow to her prosecutorial discretion.
    Gal Tziperman Lotan, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The whole trial was almost upended after Foxx asked for the charges to be dismissed on the grounds of prosecutorial misconduct.
    Lily Jackson | [email protected], al, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The government’s legal case against many of the Navy officers has hit a stumbling block in the last year or so because of prosecutorial misconduct.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2024

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