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        "text": "Darrell Hickman, Justice.\nThe trial judge, upon learning the circumstances of the forgery charge levied against Marvin Eugene Brooks, decided Brooks should not be convicted of a felony and entered the following order: \u201cWhereupon, the Court over the objection of the State amends the charge to THEFT OF PROPERTY, a misdemeanor....\u201d The state appeals seeking a declaration of error under a statute and rule that permit that procedure. Ark. Code Ann. \u00a7 16-91-112(b) (1987); A.R.Cr.P. Rule 36.10(c); Boone v. State, 282 Ark. 274, 668 S.W.2d 17 (1984).\nWe deem the question sufficiently important to the administration of justice to warrant review.\nThe duty of charging an accused with a felony is reserved either to the grand jury or the prosecutor. Ark. Const, amend. 21, \u00a7 1. The trial judge encroached upon the prosecutor\u2019s constitutional duties and breached the separation of powers doctrine.\nIn a similar case, United States v. Edmonson, 792 F.2d 1492 (9th Cir. 1986), cert. denied, 479 U.S. 1037 (1987), a federal judge treated a felony charge as a misdemeanor and the appeals court stated:\n[T]he decision whether to prosecute, and the decision as to the charge to be filed, rests in the discretion of the Attorney General or his delegates, the United States Attorneys. The Executive Branch has \u2018exclusive and absolute discretion to decide whether to prosecute.\u2019 The discretion to prosecute carries with it the discretion to choose the statute that will be charged. The district court has no power to deny the United States Attorney his prerogative under the Separation of Powers doctrine. (Citations omitted.)\nSee also Petition of United States, 306 F.2d 737 (9th Cir. 1962); State v. Laury, 397 So.2d 960 (Fla. App. 1981).\nError declared.",
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