Everyday Practice and Low-Level Crime
The average German prosecutor who practices before the Amtsgericht [lower level criminal court] must process 1000 cases per year. That averages out to 4–5 cases per day. Because of the burden of this case load, a prosecutor’s first question when he approa
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The German Prosecution Service Guardians of the Law?
The German Prosecution Service
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Shawn Marie Boyne
The German Prosecution Service Guardians of the Law?
Shawn Marie Boyne School of Law Indiana University Indianapolis Indiana USA
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To my parents, John and Mary Jo Boyne
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Acknowledgments
When I left the practice of law after 9 years to begin my Ph.D. studies, I believed that I could make it through the process as the result of my own drive and determination. I was wrong. Without my indefatigable dissertation advisor, Kathryn Hendley, at the University of Wisconsin, I am confident that I would never have persevered to complete this project. The other members of my dissertation committee, Don Downs, Tamir Moustafa, Michael Smith, and Walter Dickey, read through early drafts of my original manuscript and provided crucial insights along the way. Howie Erlanger provided me an early home as a graduate fellow in the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Pam Hollen
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