The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is the office or official charged with the prosecution of criminal offences in several criminal jurisdictions around the world. The title is used mainly in jurisdictions that are or have been members of the Commonwealth of Nations.
In the United States,a district attorney (DA),county attorney,county prosecutor,state's attorney,prosecuting attorney,commonwealth's attorney,or solicitor is the chief prosecutor or chief law enforcement officer representing a U.S. state in a local government area,typically a county or a group of counties. The exact scope of the office varies by state. Generally,the prosecutor is said to represent the people of the jurisdiction in the state's courts,typically in criminal matters,against defendants. District attorneys are elected in almost all states,and the role is generally partisan. This is unlike similar roles in other common law jurisdictions,where chief prosecutors are appointed based on merit and expected to be politically independent.
A prosecutor is a legal representative of the prosecution in states with either the adversarial system,which is adopted in common law,or inquisitorial system,which is adopted in civil law. The prosecution is the legal party responsible for presenting the case in a criminal trial against the defendant,an individual accused of breaking the law. Typically,the prosecutor represents the state or the government in the case brought against the accused person.
Peter Benson Carlisle is an American politician and attorney who served as the 13th Mayor of Honolulu,Hawaii from 2010 to 2013. Prior to serving as interim Mayor following the resignation of former Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann,Carlisle had served as the Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu from 1996 to 2010.
The Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu is one of only two countywide elected positions in the City &County of Honolulu in the State of Hawai'i. The officeholder is responsible for the prosecution of people for offenses to the laws and regulations established by the municipal government. Under the guidance of the Attorney General of Hawai'i,the Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu also has the power to prosecute on behalf of the citizens of the state.
The attorney general of Hawaii is the chief legal officer and chief law enforcement officer of Hawaii. In present-day statehood within the United States,the attorney general is appointed by the elected governor with the approval of the state senate and is responsible for a state department charged with advising the various other departments and agencies of state government. The attorney general is responsible for the prosecution of offenses under state law. The attorney general can only be removed by an act of the state senate. In rare occasions,the attorney general serves as acting governor in the absence of both the governor and lieutenant governor from the state for an extended period of time.
Andrew Thomas Cayley,,is a King's Counsel and was His Majesty's Chief Inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service from 2021 until February 2024. He was appointed by the Attorney General of England and Wales,Suella Braverman MP,KC on 19 January 2021. He is now a Principal Trial Lawyer at the ICC.
The United States Organized Crime Strike Force (Strike Forces) is a program of the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division empowering individual and coordinated units based in American cities across the country to pursue illegal racketeering by organized crime syndicates,including the Mafia,Gangs,the Irish Mob,the Russian mafia,and more. The Strike Forces have largely been eliminated since Attorney General Dick Thornburgh in 1989 merged the Strike Forces with the AUSAs,in what was called the "slow death" of the effort against organized crime. Other Strike Forces have been merged with the Strike Forces of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF),losing the focus of racketeering to focus on drugs and narcotics.
The Public Integrity Section (PIN) is a section of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice charged with combating political corruption at all levels of government through the prosecution of corrupt federal,state,and local elected and appointed public officials.
Craig S. Morford is an American attorney and former acting United States Deputy Attorney General.
Cándido Conde-Pumpido Tourón is a Spanish judge who currently serves as President of the Constitutional Court since January 12,2023.
Carmen Milagros Ortiz is an attorney,college instructor,and former United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
Stephen P. Heymann is an attorney who formerly served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. He is no longer with the U.S. Attorney's office. He headed U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz's Internet and Computer Crimes Unit.
The Attorney General of Hawaii,the chief legal officer and chief law enforcement officer of Hawaii,is responsible for the Department of the Attorney General which is charged with advising the various other departments and agencies of the state government and for the prosecution of offenses under state law.
The Company,also called the Hawaiian Syndicate,is the name given to an organized crime syndicate based in Hawaii that controlled criminal activities in the state from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s.
James Hiroji Wakatsuki was a Japanese American politician and a justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii from September 7,1983 to September 22,1992. His nickname was "The Opihi",after the well-known,difficult to move,mollusk.
David C. Schutter (1940-2005) was a Honolulu criminal defense attorney and civil litigator. He was noted for his flamboyant courtroom persona and involvement in high-profile legal cases in Hawaii during the 1970s and 1980s.
Steven S. Alm is an American lawyer who is the current Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu. A former Hawaii circuit court judge and United States Attorney,he was sworn into the position of prosecutor on January 2,2021.
Elie Honig is an American attorney and legal commentator. He is the senior legal analyst for CNN. Prior to working for CNN,Honig was an assistant United States Attorney.
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