Later this week and into next, both the defense and prosecution will be sorting through the responses to identify a hundred people who will be called back to be interviewed.
After the final group of 27 has been chosen, possibly by Thursday afternoon, the defense and prosecution will be allowed to strike six jurors each, leaving a final group of 12 jurors and 3 alternates.
Police commanders say progress in the investigations, and successful prosecutions, will be an important test for Scotland Yard, formally known as the Metropolitan Police Service, whose reputation has been badly battered by the scandal.
Do you worry that the consequence of all this, after the inquiries, and any possible prosecutions, will be legislation that, might hinder legitimate journalism?
The complexity of Mr. Bulger's prosecutions will be enormous, but the various offices are accustomed to such negotiations, said Susan Witt, a spokeswoman for Tim Harris, the Tulsa County district attorney.
The issue resurfaced after the law lords ruled last week that Keir Starmer must produce clearer guidance on when prosecutions will be launched against those accompanying people who go abroad to kill themselves.
May told MPs she had written to Goddard suggesting she ask the attorney-general to provide written undertakings that immunity from Official Secrets Act prosecutions will be offered to whistleblowers.
The SDIs' only fear is effective regulation and prosecution and they know that effective prosecution will be vanishingly rare in the absence of effective regulation.
"Match-fixing cases are notoriously difficult to prove and as such, the prosecution will be relieved to have been successful.
