Office of State's Attorney Ex Rel. Sheehan v. Diamond

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining Office of State’s Attorney being mentioned in Constitution does not imbue State’s Attorney with any powers other than those granted by statute
• construing § 361(a) and stating that “[t]he Office of the State’s Attorney, as with the local prosecutorial authority in most states, is granted broad discretion in deciding whether or not to initiate a criminal 2 prosecution”
• 3 V.S.A. § 153 gives the two offices at least “equal authority to initiate criminal prosecutions”
• state’s attorney has “broad discretion in deciding whether or not to initiate a criminal prosecution”
• prosecution “granted broad discretion in deciding whether or not to initiate a criminal prosecution”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).