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Obstruction of justice
a witness or juror. Obstruction of justice is a crime in most jurisdictions. Also termed obstructing justice; obstructing public justice, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1105. Means the goal, to proscribe every wilful act of corruption, … of law and justice, as by giving false information to or withholding evidence from a police officer or prosecutor, or by harming or intimidating a witness or juror. Obstruction of justice is a crime in most jurisdictions.
Malice
legally appointed and appropriate purpose. It means an improper or indirect motive other than a desire to vindicate public justice or a private right. It need not necessarily be a feeling of enmity, spite or ill will; … indirect motive but a prosecution is not malicious merely because it is inspired by anger. However, wrongheaded a prosecutor may be, if he honestly thinks that the accused has been guilty of a criminal offence he cannot
Prerogative of mercy
savours more of the nature of a private injury to each individual in the neighbourhood than of a public wrong. The King cannot pardon some offences against a popular or penal statute, after information brought: 3 Inst. … private accusations of felony) which were not the suit of the King, but of the party injured, the prosecutor might release, but the King could not pardon: 3 Inst. 237. Appeals by wager of battel (see that
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Certiorari
taken away by statute, and special clauses in modern statutes have frequently taken it away. See e.g., (English) Public Health Act, 1875, s. 262; (English) Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, s. 156; but even such clauses do … examined and 'quashed,' if contrary to law. The writ may be granted either at the instance of the prosecutor or the defendant. A prosecutor was formerly entitled to a writ of certiorari as a matter of right,
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