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• n  a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state

• For much of the time, Watergate has seemed to be a tangle of crimes in search of a prosecutor.
• The prosecutor is in the driver's seat.
• The prosecutor couldn't make a case without an unbiased third-party interpreter, so Davis asked him to release her client.

• public prosecutor
• prosecuting officer
• prosecuting attorney

News & Articles

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• Prosecutor: Accused officer shouldn't work at mall
  A prosecutor says a former Minneapolis police officer accused of sexually assaulting young girls shouldn't be working at a shopping mall.
  June 13, 2013 - WKBT La Crosse
• Prosecutor says man endangered teen's life in hoax
  PHOENIX (AP) — A prosecutor told jurors Wednesday that a man on trial for carrying out a terrorism hoax in Phoenix last summer could have gotten his 16-year-old nephew killed when he sent him into a street with a fake grenade launcher as he filmed the masked teen pointing it at passing vehicles during rush-hour traffic.
  June 12, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Prosecutor brings $5M tax-fraud case against Messi
  A Spanish prosecutor filed a fraud complaint Wednesday against Lionel Messi, alleging the Barcelona and Argentina star owes $5.3 million in back taxes. The complaint names Messi and his father, Jorge Horacio ...
  June 12, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Richard M Daley in FOXNews
  I was very proud of my role as prosecutor, I was not the mayor, I was not the police chief, I did not promote this man in the 80s, so let's put everything into perspective,Daley said Tuesday.
• President Bush in AFP
  I haven't spent a lot of time talking about the testimony that people throughout my administration were forced to give as a result of the special prosecutor,said Bush, who had mostly refused to comment about the case.