In the U.S., who represents the government in the prosecution of criminal offences?
Criminal law in the Chase Court Hart" (1867), the Court held that a statute empowering a territorial court to hear revenue cases did not authorize the Court to try a criminal prosecution for treason. And, in "Snow v. United States" (1873), the Court held that the Attorney General of Utah, not the federal district attorney, had the authority to prosecute crime in the Utah territory. The Supreme Court never had an opportunity to exercise the authority to hear appeals from habeas petitions in the circuit courts. In "Ex parte McCardle" (1867), the first such case, the Court denied a motion to dismiss, finding that it had
Private prosecution grass-roots citizens organization (COLA) over issuance of fraudulent passports was unsuccessful because the defense succeed in arguing that the private prosecutor did not have the power to subpoena police records on the case. An attorney for COLA indicated that the government didn't want prosecution of Penner undertaken, and acted to block its success. Canada is a federation and therefore has both federal and provincial offences which can be privately prosecuted. Federally, there are Criminal and statutory offences, and provincially there are provincial and municipal non-criminal offences. Under Canada's constitution, all criminal offences in Canada are under federal jurisdiction. The seditious