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Criminal Justice System

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Huffington Post

A judge may occasionally dismiss charges due to lack of evidence, but generally speaking, the decision to charge is the prosecutor's. And while police officers can be sued for a wrongful arrest, prosecutors are protected by absolute immunity, meaning

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http://www.rawstory.com, By Stephen C. Webster

A man in Philadelphia was charged last weekend with possessing drugs with the intent to distribute after police claimed they discovered 89 individual bags of marijuana tied to his penis.

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The Associated Press

Zimmerman was charged after a public campaign to make an arrest in the shooting that galvanized the nation for weeks. The prosecution will have to refute arguments that a Florida law empowered him to use deadly force and plotted Martin's death.