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The process of bringing someone to trial on criminal charges.
Prosecution (Wikipedia)
A prosecutor is a legal representative of the prosecution in states with either the common law adversarial system or the civil law inquisitorial system. The prosecution is the legal party responsible for presenting the case in a criminal trial against an individual accused of breaking the law. Typically, the prosecutor represents the state or the government in the case brought against the accused person.
 Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson (on the pulpit) at the Nuremberg Trials | |
| Occupation | |
|---|---|
Occupation type | Profession |
Activity sectors | Law, law enforcement |
| Description | |
| Competencies | Advocacy skills, analytical mind, sense of justice |
Education required | Typically required to be authorised to practice law in the jurisdiction, law degree, in some cases a traineeship. |
Fields of employment | Government legal service |
Related jobs | Barrister, solicitor, advocate, judge, magistrate |
Prosecution (Wiktionary)
English
Etymology
Equivalent to prosecute + -ion, from Middle French prosecution, from Late Latin prōsecutio, from Latin prōsequor (“follow, pursue”
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