Nolle prosequi definition

Nolle prosequi means a formal entry on the record by the State that declares the State’s intention not to prosecute a charge.
Nolle prosequi means a declaration made to the judge by a prosecutor in a juvenile matter, either before or during trial, meaning the case against the juvenile is being dropped.
Nolle prosequi means to have a case dismissed. See BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY (10th ed.) p. 1210.

Examples of Nolle prosequi in a sentence

  • The case in point is the Milimo Lungu saga where the state entered Nolle prosequi due to discretionary powers of the DPP.

  • Nolle prosequi was issued on the charge of larceny under lease.¶4.

  • At this stage mediation or other forms of restorative justice could diminish the number of cases going to the court and save a lot of people from the labellingprocess of being a convict.

  • Narratives helped to exploit clues about how prosecutors enter a Nolle prosequi as a discretionally power exclusively to themselves and unchallenged.

  • In exposing this type of legally based injustice, this article explicate such incidents (i.e., the Milimo Lungu debacle) arguing that the Nolle prosequi law need to be grounded in principles and practices of social justice if it is to be approved as better strategy and mechanism to eliminate corruption in the mining sector.

  • The Nolle prosequi in Zambia: A political tool or a prosecutor’s necessity, 2021.

  • In agreement with Van Waarden (1992) [28] policy network is that it helps to map up the actual relations that emerges from the bureaucracy with various actors participating in the network flourishing the Nolle prosequi phenomenon at KCM.

  • The DPP’s power to enter a Nolle prosequi weakens the strategy and mechanism to combat corruption because this discretion allows him to use judgment to balance the various requirements of the Zambian constitution to attain social justice.

  • Nolle prosequi is entered only in the discretion of the court, upon motion of the Commonwealth’s Attorney with good cause shown.

  • The themes are discussed in sequence as patterns of behavior weakening the Nolle prosequi law to combat the Nolle prosequi phenomenon in the mining sector of Zambia.

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