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** ''Series/LawAndOrder'': Jack "Hang 'Em High" [=McCoy=], in particular, is known for hiding evidence, bullying witnesses, and generally [[LoopholeAbuse abusing the law]] to get convictions. Although [=McCoy=] can generally be characterised as playing hard, but within legal limits, this isn't always the case. Withholding evidence, for example, is illegal when the evidence is "exculpatory" (tending to show the defendant's innocence), although [[http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/opinion/sunday/rampant-prosecutorial-misconduct.html prosecutors have only rarely been punished for this]] in RealLife. On the other hand, [=McCoy=] (usually) has the good graces to feel bad about some of his less proud moments, and also often has people telling him, [[WhatTheHellHero "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!"]] when he goes overboard. Michael Cutter isn't always so ready to accept criticism.
*** One case where [=McCoy=] nearly crosses the line is "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS8E11UnderTheInfluence Under The Influence]]", when he's prosecuting a drunk driver who killed someone. [=McCoy=] withholds exculpatory evidence because he lost a colleague (and former lover) to a drunk driver, and he wants this win for revenge. But at the last moment he repents and finds a way to get the evidence in.
*** [=McCoy=] does cross the line -- and gets smacked down for it by a judge -- when he is so certain that a paroled serial killer is going to kill again that he puts 24-hour surveillance on the man without a warrant or any evidence to justify it.
*** In the Season 6 episode "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS6E12Trophy Trophy]]", one of [=McCoy's=] previous Assistant DA's is shown to have crossed the line when she hid evidence and suborned perjury from an expert witness to put away an accused serial killer. Years later, the killings start again, revealing that the imprisoned man was actually innocent.
*** One case where [=McCoy=] nearly crosses the line is "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS8E11UnderTheInfluence Under The Influence]]", when he's prosecuting a drunk driver who killed someone. [=McCoy=] withholds exculpatory evidence because he lost a colleague (and former lover) to a drunk driver, and he wants this win for revenge. But at the last moment he repents and finds a way to get the evidence in.
*** [=McCoy=] does cross the line -- and gets smacked down for it by a judge -- when he is so certain that a paroled serial killer is going to kill again that he puts 24-hour surveillance on the man without a warrant or any evidence to justify it.
*** In the Season 6 episode "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS6E12Trophy Trophy]]", one of [=McCoy's=] previous Assistant DA's is shown to have crossed the line when she hid evidence and suborned perjury from an expert witness to put away an accused serial killer. Years later, the killings start again, revealing that the imprisoned man was actually innocent.
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** ''Series/LawAndOrder'': ''Series/LawAndOrder'':
*** Jack "Hang 'Em High" [=McCoy=], in particular, is known for hiding evidence, bullying witnesses, and generally [[LoopholeAbuse abusing the law]] to get convictions. Although [=McCoy=] can generally be characterised as playinghard, hard but within legal limits, this isn't always the case. Withholding evidence, for example, is illegal when the evidence is "exculpatory" (tending to show the defendant's innocence), although [[http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/opinion/sunday/rampant-prosecutorial-misconduct.html prosecutors have only rarely been punished for this]] in RealLife. On the other hand, [=McCoy=] (usually) has the good graces to feel bad about some of his less proud moments, and also often has people telling him, [[WhatTheHellHero "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!"]] when he goes overboard. Michael Cutter isn't always so ready to accept criticism.
*** **** One case where [=McCoy=] nearly crosses the line is "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS8E11UnderTheInfluence Under The Influence]]", when he's prosecuting a drunk driver who killed someone. [=McCoy=] withholds exculpatory evidence because he lost a colleague (and former lover) to a drunk driver, and he wants this win for revenge. But at the last moment moment, he repents and finds a way to get the evidence in.
*** **** [=McCoy=] does cross the line -- and gets smacked down for it by a judge -- when he is so certain that a paroled serial killer is going to kill again that he puts 24-hour surveillance on the man without a warrant or any evidence to justify it.
*** **** In the Season 6 episode "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS6E12Trophy Trophy]]", one of [=McCoy's=] previous Assistant DA's is shown to have crossed the line when she hid evidence and suborned perjury from an expert witness to put away an accused serial killer. Years later, the killings start again, revealing that the imprisoned man was actually innocent.
*** Jack "Hang 'Em High" [=McCoy=], in particular, is known for hiding evidence, bullying witnesses, and generally [[LoopholeAbuse abusing the law]] to get convictions. Although [=McCoy=] can generally be characterised as playing
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E21TheDrumhead The Drumhead]]", a visiting Admiral begins a witch hunt aboard the ''Enterprise''-D, convinced that there are Romulan spies among the crew (despite her only evidence to that effect being quickly disproven). She relentlessly hounds a medic who concealed a Romulan ancestor on his application to Starfleet, humiliating him in front of the entire crew, and when Captain Picard tries to rein her in, she puts ''him'' in the hot seat with the intent to use his [[RapeAsBackstory experience with the Borg]] as grounds to have him relieved of duty and arrested. When he throws the words of her father (a renowned judge) in her face, she completely snaps and starts ranting, without evidence, that he's a traitor to the Federation and that she's "brought down bigger men that [him]". Fortunately, this rant neatly discredits her in front of the visiting Chief of Starfleet Security, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard whom she had invited to watch the proceedings]], and she's sent home in disgrace.
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* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E21TheDrumhead The Drumhead]]", a visiting Admiral begins a witch hunt aboard the ''Enterprise''-D, convinced that there are Romulan spies among the crew (despite her only evidence to that effect being quickly disproven). She relentlessly hounds a medic who concealed a Romulan ancestor on his application to Starfleet, humiliating him in front of the entire crew, and when Captain Picard tries to rein her in, she puts ''him'' in the hot seat with the intent to use his [[RapeAsBackstory experience with the Borg]] as grounds to have him relieved of duty and arrested. When he throws the words of her father (a renowned judge) in her face, she completely snaps and starts ranting, without evidence, that he's a traitor to the Federation and that she's "brought down bigger men that than [him]". Fortunately, this rant neatly discredits her in front of the visiting Chief of Starfleet Security, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard whom she had invited to watch the proceedings]], and she's sent home in disgrace.
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* In the novella ''Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption'' from ''Literature/DifferentSeasons'', Red contemplates the idea that the prosecutor on Andy's case may have intentionally buried evidence that could have corroborated Andy's version of events. This might have either resulted in Andy being found Not Guilty or at least having a stronger defense. He notes on multiple occasions that the District Attorney who tried the case was well known to be ambitious and made big speeches that would be recorded in the newspapers and sway the jury to find Andy guilty in part to raise his profile in state politics.
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** [[TheDreaded Manfred Von Karma]], Edgeworth's aforementioned EvilMentor, is pretty much the embodiment of this trope. A legendary prosecutor who is driven by [[ThePerfectionist an absolute obsession with perfection]], for forty years Manfred has held his undefeated streak in the courtroom, and he is willing to resort to literally any length to maintain it. Thus he regularly withholds evidence, coaches and intimidates witnesses, harasses the defence council, and even flat-out bullies judges into submission. During his long career, he has ruined the lives of hundreds of innocent people and sent an unknown number to their deaths. He also spent years enacting an intricate revenge plot against [[spoiler:Gregory Edgeworth]] for exposing his use of forged evidence (but still didn't lose the trial). [[spoiler:First by murdering Gregory, then Manfred spent years building up Edgeworth to ensure he grew into Gregory's antithesis, all so he could [[FrameUp frame him for two other murders]] and thus utterly destroy Edgeworth's legacy.]] [[EvilIsPetty All because of a minor blemish on his record]].
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** [[TheDreaded Manfred Von Karma]], Edgeworth's aforementioned EvilMentor, is pretty much the embodiment of this trope. A legendary prosecutor who is driven by [[ThePerfectionist an absolute obsession with perfection]], for forty years Manfred has held his undefeated streak in the courtroom, and he is willing to resort to literally any length to maintain it. Thus he regularly withholds evidence, coaches and intimidates witnesses, harasses the defence council, and even flat-out bullies judges into submission. During his long career, he has ruined the lives of hundreds of innocent people and [[IndirectSerialKiller sent an unknown number to their deaths.deaths]]. He also spent years enacting an intricate revenge plot against [[spoiler:Gregory Edgeworth]] for exposing his use of forged evidence (but still didn't lose the trial). [[spoiler:First by murdering Gregory, then Manfred spent years building up Edgeworth to ensure he grew into Gregory's antithesis, all so he could [[FrameUp frame him for two other murders]] and thus utterly destroy Edgeworth's legacy.]] [[EvilIsPetty All because of a minor blemish on his record]].
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* In Creator/RobertBloch's short story "Enoch", District Attorney Cassidy manipulates the clearly mentally ill murderer Seth into appearing sane to give him a harsher sentence, specifically by asking Seth to loan him his presumably hallucinatory master Enoch during Seth's trial. Unfortunately for Cassidy, Enoch is very real and takes him up on the offer, demanding ''Cassidy'' now kill people he can feed on. [[spoiler:And when Cassidy refuses, Enoch decides to snack on him instead.]]
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* In Creator/RobertBloch's short story "Enoch", "Literature/{{Enoch}}", District Attorney Cassidy manipulates the clearly mentally ill murderer Seth into appearing sane to give him a harsher sentence, specifically by asking Seth to loan him his presumably hallucinatory master Enoch during Seth's trial. Unfortunately for Cassidy, Enoch is very real and takes him up on the offer, demanding ''Cassidy'' now kill people he can feed on. [[spoiler:And when Cassidy refuses, Enoch decides to snack on him instead.]]
