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Federal and Local Prosecutors in the United States

Question 10 • Introduction to Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security

What is meant by a “private prosecutor?”

Answer
A
A German practice left over from the eighteenth century legal system in which victims became their own prosecutors in family court.
B
An attorney hired by a private individual or family today to charge, try, and punish criminals for crimes committed against their families.
C
Early in the twentieth century, American victims’ families were able to hire their own attorneys to prosecute alleged criminals in order to receive any justice at all.
D
A standard practice in eighteenth century England in which the victim’s family hired its own prosecutor to bring charges against an alleged criminal.

Explanation

A private prosecutor was someone hired by the victim or the victim’s family to bring a criminal case, rather than having it prosecuted by a public official. This was a standard practice in eighteenth-century England. Choice D gives that definition; the other choices place the practice in the wrong country or time period, or describe it inaccurately.

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