After that, the prosecutor spent a lot of time sitting in his car.

The prosecutor spent $48,784, a fraction of what has been spent by other independent prosecutors in recent years.

One could make a case that the losing prosecutor should have spent less time prancing and primping.

"Realistically, prosecutors usually don't spend 20 months of effort and staff time to find that there is no problem," one administration official said.

Haitian prosecutors have spent five years trying to recover these materials.

He said the Iran-contra prosecutor had spent great sums of money and effort for "rather modest results."

Once again, the prosecutor spent several minutes establishing Molina's credentials and his position on the project.

"The prosecutors have spent a fortune, a king's ransom, in an effort to determine which would be the most effective."

Since then, the Boulder police and prosecutors have spent $1.6 million in the most expensive criminal investigation in the city's history.

The prosecutor, Robert Masters, spent almost two and a half hours telling the jury the various reasons to return a verdict of death.