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Prosecutorial Discretion: What's Politics Got To Do with It? Trends & Events > Investigations from AllBusiness.com: "Therein is the most dangerous power of the prosecutor: that he will pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted. [A] prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone.... It is in this realm-in which the prosecutor picks some person whom he dislikes or desires to embarrass, or selects some group of unpopular persons and then looks for an offense, that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies. It is here that law enforcement becomes personal.."THOSE WHO INFLUENCE(ENCOURAGE)YOUNG MINDS TO A HIGHER AND HEALTHIER PLAIN?