In the early history of England, the victim of a crime and his family had the right to hire a private attorney to prosecute criminal charges against the person alleged to have injured the victim.

But recently, the Middlesex County district attorney's office decided not to prosecute charges related to three of the accusers, leaving only the accusations of a 27-year-old Newton man.

Porter continued to prosecute federal charges while running for Iowa governor in 1918.

A commission set up by the United Nations Security Council is to recommend that an international tribunal prosecute charges of genocide and similar crimes in Rwanda, diplomats said today.

The Advocate's office acts as the department's district attorney, prosecuting departmental charges against police officers accused of breaking regulations.

Technically he was a traitor, and while hundreds of other rebels had been dealt with leniently, Smuts was determined to prosecute charges against this officer.

In May 2005, Virginia and Maryland announced that they had reached agreements to allow Maryland to proceed with prosecuting charges there, where the most shootings occurred.

The court provided a venue for prosecuting criminal charges, but afforded no relief for tribes seeking to resolve civil matters.

He said the office was "absolutely secure in all the counts," that it had jursidiction to prosecute charges, even those that were far afield like the purported bribery of Peruvian officials.

The statements by Mr. Duncan will, however, make it far more difficult to prosecute charges of accounting fraud based on broader allegations, legal experts said.