State Ex Rel. Skinner v. Dostert

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “[t]he prosecutor, like any other executive officer, must have sound reasons for his actions”
• holding that the prosecuting attorney “secur[es] convictions on behalf of the State.”
• “prosecutor in his discretion may decide which of several possible charges he will bring against an accused”
• courts have an obligation pursuant to Section 17 of Article 3 of the West Virginia Constitution “to apply the law and decide the ease unfettered by any influences alien to the case or the process”
• “prosecutor in his discretion may decide which of several possible charges he will bring against an accused”
• “The prosecuting attorney, in his sound discretion, may refrain from prosecuting a cause or, having commenced a prosecution, may move the dismissal of a cause, . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).