In many criminal cases, crime victims are desperately injured and dramatically inconvenienced in a long, confusing, and challenging legal process. The road to recovery physically, legally, emotionally, and personally can be hard. In those exact same cases, criminal defendants face their own series of setbacks and challenges from a legal system managing countless cases and conflicting philosophical priorities.

Their road to “justice” encounters its own breed of challenges. Wedged somewhere in the middle is the prosecutor, tasked by the electorate to manage this complicated procedure to find justice for everyone – a task that may even be impossible in the easiest of cases.

This CLE takes this philosophical challenge and reviews laws from two jurisdiction to compare procedures and provide some ideas which may inspire practitioners in their unique practice areas.