Shire v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “From the beginning of our criminal justice system prosecutors have exercised the power of prosecutorial discretion in deciding which defendants to prosecute.”
• prosecutor has discretion to determine “whether a prosecution should proceed and when within the law it should do so”
• “[g]enerally, a prosecution in state court commences with the filing by the solicitor of an accusation or UTC with the clerk of the court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).