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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All prosecutions are undertaken by the public prosecutor, the Lord Advocate, or his subordinates, the procurators fiscal.
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However, procurators fiscal hardly ever take advantage of this power.
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Police said one man had been charged with breach of the peace and a report was being sent to the procurator fiscal.
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Police said that a report on the crash would go to the procurator fiscal at Ayr.
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Tashkent's deputy chief of police and the deputy city procurator allegedly watched the attack but did not intervene to stop it.
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The procurator fiscal has a wide measure of autonomy, both in a discretion whether to prosecute and in choosing the charges.
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This records the restoration of a principia by Naevius, an assistant procurator , in the early third century.