The Origins of Private Prosecution

Cottum says that a lot has actually been written about private prosecution, but it's all been about cases at the corporate level. A company will have rights to something and they want to prosecute fraud, but the government is slow to take action so they do it themselves. What really got him interested in this was that he was seeing private prosecution happening against low-level criminals,. shoplifters, and small-time counterfeiters.

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