For this reason the state alone, and not private citizens, may prosecute criminal defendants.

Other states prosecute the same crimes, but not necessarily by one person.

The state has prosecuted two cases of fraud in such programs since 1988.

Under the present law, the state can prosecute until five years after an accuser turns 18.

It would require the states to prosecute children 15 and older as adults for those crimes.

Most states in the nation prosecute fraud; they don't pay for it.

No state prosecutes mothers for giving birth outside a hospital.

"No state should be prosecuting any individual for expressing an opinion held peacefully."

Any constitutional state would automatically track down, arrest and prosecute the perpetrators.

But even after members of the weekly's staff photographed a man loading the papers into a car, the state would not prosecute.