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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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Four were arrested on the orders of the chief public prosecutor , but Mr Honecker was let off because of ill health.
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He was later charged with trespass, and the public prosecutor in Mannheim will this week decide whether other charges will follow.
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It demonstrated the excesses that are possible in the present climate of confusion and for which the chief public prosecutor has apologised.
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On June 14, 1961, at the request of Milan's public prosecutor , it was seized by 25 plain-clothes policemen.