prosecutorial misconduct

prosecutorial misconduct
n. An illegal act or failing to act, on the part of a prosecutor, especially an attempt to sway the jury to wrongly convict a defendant or to impose a harsher than appropriate punishment.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.

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