22 October 2020

LawRules #5: We need to talk about Prosecutors

Public prosecutors decide whether a criminal suspect is investigated. Or not. They decide whether a person is indicted and whether there will be a trial. Or not.

If you control them, you can make your opponents’ life miserable and let your friends run free. On the other hand: If prosecutors don’t have to answer to politics at all, who will hold them accountable?

This is what we discuss with these distinguished guests in this week’s episode:

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SUGGESTED CITATION  Santos Pais, José Manuel, Vassileva, Radosveta, Groß, Thomas; Steinbeis, Maximilian: LawRules #5: We need to talk about Prosecutors, VerfBlog, 2020/10/22, https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/lawrules-5-we-need-to-talk-about-prosecutors/, DOI: 10.17176/20201022-113236-0.

One Comment

  1. Danai Emmanouilidis Mon 26 Oct 2020 at 16:16 - Reply

    Es wäre interessant eine Folge mit ähnlicher Fragestellung zum Prosecutor beim internationalen Strafgerichtshof zu machen :)

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