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.
The Judiciary of Russia interprets and applies the law of Russia. It is defined under the Constitution and law with a hierarchical structure with the Constitutional Court and Supreme Court at the apex. The district courts are the primary criminal trial courts,and the regional courts are the primary appellate courts. The judiciary is governed by the All-Russian Congress of Judges and its Council of Judges,and its management is aided by the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court,the Higher Qualification Board of Judges,and the Ministry of Justice,and the various courts' presidents. And although there are many officers of the court,including jurors,the Prosecutor General remains the most powerful component of the Russian judicial system.
The Criminal Court of the City of New York is a court of the State Unified Court System in New York City that handles misdemeanors and lesser offenses,and also conducts arraignments and preliminary hearings in felony cases.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is a public high school in Parkland,Florida,United States. It was established in 1990 and is part of the Broward County Public Schools district. It is named after the writer Marjory Stoneman Douglas and is the only public high school in Parkland,serving almost all of the limits of that city as well as a section of Coral Springs.
The judicial system of Israel consists of secular courts and religious courts. The law courts constitute a separate and independent unit of Israel's Ministry of Justice. The system is headed by the President of the Supreme Court and the Minister of Justice.
The Broward County Sheriff's Office (BSO) is a public safety organization With 5,400 employees,it is the largest sheriff's department in the state of Florida. Sheriff Gregory Tony heads the agency.
Michael J Satz is an American attorney and politician in the State of Florida,who served as State Attorney for Florida's 17th judicial circuit,covering Broward County from 1976 to 2021.
The Judiciary of New York is the judicial branch of the Government of New York,comprising all the courts of the State of New York.
The Excessive Bail Clause of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits excessive bail set in pre-trial detention. If a judge posts excessive bail,the defendant's lawyer may make a motion in court to lower the bail or appeal directly to a higher court.
Scott W. Rothstein is an American disbarred lawyer,convicted felon,and the former managing shareholder,chairman,and chief executive officer of the now-defunct Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm. He funded an extravagant lifestyle with a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme,one of the largest such in history.
Barbara Lagoa is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Prior to becoming a federal judge,she was the first Latina and Cuban American woman appointed to serve as a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.
On February 14,2018,19-year-old Nikolas Cruz opened fire on students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the Miami suburban town of Parkland,Florida,United States,killing 17 people and injuring 17 others. Cruz,a former student at the school,fled the scene on foot by blending in with other students and was arrested without incident approximately one hour and twenty minutes later in nearby Coral Springs. Police and prosecutors investigated "a pattern of disciplinary issues and unnerving behavior".
Scott Israel is an American law enforcement officer in Florida,and the former Broward County Sheriff.
Scot Peterson is an American former police officer who was involved in the events of the 2018 high school shooting incident at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the Broward suburban town of Parkland,Florida. At the time of the shooting,he was a Broward County Sheriff's Office deputy sheriff.
Kimberly M. Gardner is an American politician and attorney from the state of Missouri. She was the circuit attorney for the city of St. Louis,Missouri. She previously served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives.
Aileen Mercedes Cannon is a Colombian-born American lawyer who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida since 2020. As president,Donald Trump nominated and appointed Canon to the federal bench after confirmation by the U.S. Senate in November 2020. Cannon worked for the corporate law firm Gibson Dunn from 2009 to 2012 and was a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida from 2013 to 2020.
Nikolas Jacob Cruz is an American mass murderer who perpetrated the Parkland high school shooting,where he shot and killed 17 people and wounded 17 others on February 14,2018. In 2022,Cruz was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his involvement in the deaths and injuries caused during the shooting,which is the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history.
The State of Florida v. Jamell Demons is an ongoing American criminal case in Florida's 17th Judicial Circuit in which rapper Jamell Demons,commonly known by his stage name YNW Melly,is charged with murdering his two friends,Anthony D'Andre Williams and Christopher Jermaine Thomas Jr. in October 2018. If convicted,he faces either life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death penalty. If Demons is convicted,he will be one of the first defendants to be sentenced under Governor Ron DeSantis's new non-unanimous death sentence law,in which the jury will only need to have at least eight out of twelve jurors agree to recommend the death penalty rather than it being unanimous.
Michael Allen Usan is an American lawyer and legal official who has served as a judge in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida since 2010.
