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Re:Climategate Inquiry Clearly Ignores Wrongdoing by eli on Thursday July 08, 2010 @01:34PM (#1498073)
IANAL, but I didn't think there really was a plaintiff in criminal court. Isn't it e.g. "The United States Government" or "The State of New York" (not just whoever has beef with the defendant)?
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Re:Climategate Inquiry Clearly Ignores Wrongdoing by hugh3 on Thursday July 08, 2010 @02:22PM (#1498267)
You're right; perhaps it should say "with no prosecutors".

In other words, this inquiry had nobody there to aggressively put forth the case that the defendant was guilty.

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