In Re Private Criminal Complaints of Rafferty

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• stating that this Court has consistently held that a determination that a case lacks prosecutorial merit is a policy determination
• reaffirming that a trial court’s standard of review when reviewing a district attorney’s decision to disapprove a private criminal complaint on wholly policy considerations, or on a hybrid of legal and policy considerations, is an abuse of discretion
• a court may only interfere with exercise of prosecutorial discretion where the prosecutor’s decision is “patently discriminatory, arbitrary[,] or pretextual”
• complainant supplied with letter specifically denying the private criminal complaint with an explanation of the denial

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