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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Probably mostly an omission typo, but there seem to be a lot of them, including plenty of published ones.
law enforcement officers are “presenting fewer cases for prosection than before the pandemic,”
U.S. v. Earls, 4:09-CR-00301-01-WRW Casetext https://casetext.com › ... › ED AR › 2009 › December Any evidence not timely and properly disclosed by the Prosection under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and this Court’s Pre-Trial Order.
If any one element of a crime cannot be established by the prosection, then a finding of not guilty must be entered as to that crime.
Sometime after 3 a.m., authorities concluded, as Stites was on her way to work, Reed—who by the prosection’s account was alone and on foot […]
It might be a malapropism for some, perhaps. It is not common among those not teaching or studying anatomy, but “prosection” is another word for “dissection” of a cadaver for teaching purposes. The idea of the police presenting cases for such treatment, whether before or after the pandemic, is rather disconcerting.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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I found myself counting the letters as prosecution looks longer than it should with only one letter prosected (sic). An illusion.
I knew prosection was vaguely surgical but it seems too uncommon a word to play eggcorn games. And there must be an interesting reason why the word prosector came into use in 1801 when the world of autopsy was already well supplied with dissectors busily dissecting, but I am unable to discover more.
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It occurs to me that someone might understand “prosection” as that segment (=section=sector?) of the justice system whose job is to present evidence against a suspect and push for punishment of the criminal. So perhaps they are the section that is in favor of (= pro-) condemnation and punishment.
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Seems pretty far-fetched.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2023-12-15 11:19:50)
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we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Not so far-fetched in the UK where sectioning is commonly understood to mean involuntary hospitalisation under the Mental Health Act 1983, which frequently involves the police too.
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