[Taft in '52]

For instance, Kreep often declined to take away a defendant’s 4th Amendment rights against search and seizure — something prosecutors can legally request at various points during the criminal process.

How can prosecutors legally request taking away a Constitutional right?

[supercat]

How can prosecutors legally request taking away a Constitutional right?

They wouldn't phrase their request in such terms. Rather, they would ask a judge to let them to do something which they would hope the judge would consider legitimate, even if it actually wasn't.