The District Attorney for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit is specifically endowed with and shall retain all of his or her discretionary powers under the common law. The district attorney shall have the prosecutorial discretion as defined herein or any which he or she has under the common law, and may as a matter of such prosecutorial discretion establish a pretrial or a preprosecution diversionary or deferred prosecution program in all courts within the circuit. (Act 1978, No. 706, p. 1015, § 2.)
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