The Prosecutor of Union County is a constitutional officer. Pursuant to Article 7, section 2, paragraph 1
of the New Jersey Constitution:
"County prosecutors shall be nominated
and appointed by the Governor with
the advice and consent of the Senate.
Their term of office shall be five years
and they shall serve until the appointment and qualification of their respective successors."
Our statutes provide that:
"Each prosecutor shall be vested
with the
same powers and be subject to
the same penalties, within his county,
as the attorney general shall by law
be vested with or subject to, and he shall use
all reasonable and lawful diligence for the detection, arrest, indictment and conviction
of offenders against the laws." |
