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What (who) is Overreach - definition
AN ILLEGAL ACT OR FAILING TO ACT, ON THE PART OF A PROSECUTOR
Police fraud; Prosecutorial Misconduct; Prosecutorial overreach
overreach
also over-reach
(overreaches, overreaching, overreached)
If you say that someone overreaches themselves, you mean that they fail at something because they are trying to do more than they are able to.
The company had overreached itself and made unwise investments...
VERB: V pron-refl
overreach
v. a.
Deceive, cheat, dupe, outwit, circumvent, defraud, swindle, cozen, gull, trick, victimize, diddle, take in, impose upon.
overreach
¦ verb
1. reach too far.
(overreach oneself) try to do more than is possible.
2. (of a horse, dog, etc.) bring the hind feet so far forward that they fall alongside or strike the forefeet.
3. outwit.
Wikipedia
Prosecutorial misconduct
In jurisprudence, prosecutorial misconduct or prosecutorial overreach is "an illegal act or failing to act, on the part of a prosecutor, especially an attempt to sway the jury to wrongly convict a defendant or to impose a harsher than appropriate punishment." It is similar to selective prosecution. Prosecutors are bound by a sets of rules which outline fair and dispassionate conduct.
Examples of use of Overreach
1. The second creates an overreach that incapacitates a society.
2. Did the president overreach or mismanage or, maybe, both?
3. Admittedly, recent signals from the government point to increased overreach.
4. Will Obama provide any centrist check on liberal congressional overreach?
5. "It would constitute a sort of punitive overreach."