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Of course that doesn't mean anyone at the top is to blame, but one can see why the prosecutor would draw that inference.

What's relevant to (1) is what facts and testimony the prosecutor has available when he decides to prosecute.

German media and politicians have criticized an investigation by Federal Prosecutor General Harald Range into a pair of journalists...

The fact that the prosecution ultimately lost does not mean, as the article suggests, that the prosecutor was wrong to bring the case in the first place.

But any activity that wins damages on the civil side could also (at federal prosecutor discretion) be prosecuted criminally.

After his death the prosecutor released a statement saying that they would have recommended to the judge 6 months in jail.

If anything, the prosecutor's loss highlights why prosecutors haven't gone after the big banks.

That of course did not stop the prosecutor from going after the employees.

Of course, the standards-of-proof are lower in a civil case, and it remains unlikely most civil judgements would change a federal prosecutor's priorities.

Assuming this isn't just a reconsideration where the prosecutor can again decide not to actually prosecute the charges, this is a fairly substantial difference.

When presented with the facts of a case, a good prosecutor and defense attorney will be able to reasonably assess probabilities for the possible verdicts.

The article doesn't suggest that the prosecutor was wrong to bring the case because they lost, but rather because the case they presented was farcical.

I love the "escrow account" which was nothing more than a slush fund for the prosecutor's office.

They were exonerated from all charges after trial, wouldn't that make the pre-trial "facts" supplied by the DA/prosecutor the non-factual narrative in this case?

He himself went to the media and gave an interview where he claimed “not to understand why Federal Public Prosecutor Harald Range” is doing that.

"Instead of intimidating journalists, the state prosecutor should resume the investigation proceedings into the NSA affair that he only recently abandoned," he said.