Inmates of Attica Correctional Facility v. Nelson A. Rockefeller

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• holding that mandatory statutory language directing that each United States attorney “shall . . . prosecute for all offenses against the United States” “has never been thought to preclude the exercise of prosecutorial discretion”
• holding that a federal court cannot compel state prosecutors to commence a prosecution
• holding that a federal court cannot compel state prosecutors to commence a prosecution
• holding that a federal court cannot compel state prosecutors to commence a prosecution
• holding that a federal court cannot compel state prosecutors to commence a prosecution
• holding that the provision that the U.S. Attorney is “authorized and required to institute prosecutions against all persons violating” certain provisions of the Civil Rights Act does not “strip” federal prosecutors of their “normal prosecutorial discretion.”

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