State v. Jogan

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the decision to nolle prosequi is vested solely in the state attorney’s discretion and cannot be made or supervised by the courts
• concluding that pretrial death penalty determination by trial judge would unconstitutionally interfere with complete discretionary executive function vested in prosecutor to charge and prosecute cases
• trial court may not dismiss information conditioned on defendant enlisting in military where State desires to prosecute
• court has post-trial discretion in non-capital felony cases to withhold adjudication or withhold imposition of sentence in favor of probation for a deserving defendant
• state attorney has sole discretion to either prosecute or nolle prosse a defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).