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criminal cases and try to prove that a person or company committed a crime (U.S.). Some federal prosecutors are United States Attorneys (93 of them). States have a United States Attorney for each district and Assistant District Attorneys who assist them in prosecuting cases. The prosecutorÆs job is to investigate the case; decide whom to charge with what; to hold an initial and pre-trial hearings; negotiate any pleas agreements; make a motion in Limine; prosecute a trial; recommend sentencing; and take part in any appeals made by the defense. It is the prosecutorÆs job to prove that the suspect committed the crime for which he has been charged, and convince the jury of this beyond a reasonable doubt.

The defense attorneyÆs job is to convince the jury that there is a reasonable doubt that his client committed the crime of which he/she is accused and therefore that he should be/she should be found not guilty. He may be able to persuade the prosecution that there are good reasons why charges should not be filed, or that there is a legal reason why the law does not apply to a particular factual situation before the case goes to trial (Arizona). There may be weaknesses in the evidence that law enforcement officials have overlooked, or there may be others more criminally responsible than the client. The attorney evaluates the evidence to see if there is a valid case against his client. The defense attorney gathers in

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s drinking that night. Probable cause is a reasonable belief that a crime has been committed (Absolute). Before an officer can arrest a driver for drunk driving, the officer must have probable cause the driver was driving while intoxicated (Legal). Probable cause is a higher standard than reasonable suspicion. The officer must pull over the driver if he sees evidence of impaired riving (swerving, weaving, violating traffic laws, etc.), administer field sobriety tests, and if the driver fails these tests, then he can arrest him for driving under the influence. In this case, the officer had observed no such driving impairments, only a burned out license plate light, which was an offense. Ray performed the field sobriety tests, but we are not told how well. However, the officer had no probable cause to make Ray perform these tests (Absolute). It was only after asking Ray how much he had been drinking, and Ray had answered that he had drunk two beers, which would not put him over the legal driving limit, that the officer arrested him, and he later confessed to drinking all night. Since there was no probable cause to suspect drunk driving in the first place, no probable cause to perform the field sobriety check, then there
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