But despite the plethora of allegations and investigations - more than 1,000 cases before IHAT, more than 1,000 allegations before the ICC - it is unlikely that any British soldier or veteran will be successfully prosecuted, as unlikely as the prospect of Paras being successfully prosecuted for shooting unarmed civil rights marchers on Bloody Sunday, more than 40 years ago in Northern Ireland.
Perjury convictions resulting from congressional testimony are incredibly rare; according to a 2007 paper in the Quinnipiac Law Review by lawyer P. J. Meit, there have only been six cases of people being successfully prosecuted for lying to Congress in the past 60 years, even though thousands of people speak before congressional committees every year.
No police officer was ever successfully prosecuted for Doomadgee's death, but several Aboriginal men, including Palm Island spokesperson Lex Wotton, were successfully prosecuted for the ensuing riots and received a seven year prison sentence.
But yesterday Kent police confirmed that he had been successfully prosecuted for his part in the robbery and would serve 10 years in jail.
In St. Paul, organizers from the Tea Party and related groups announced this week that they were offering a $500 reward for anyone who turned in someone who was successfully prosecuted for voter fraud.
The new evidence could shore up the defense of Mr. Motassadeq, a Moroccan engineering student who is the only person to have been successfully prosecuted for involvement in the Sept. 11 plot.
To this day, not a single contractor has been successfully prosecuted for its role in the Abu Ghraib prison atrocities or the Nisour Square massacre, in which 17 Iraqi civilians were killed.
In his column "Secrecy in Shreds," Bill Keller writes that The Chicago Tribune published the fact that the United States had broken the Japanese code and that The Tribune could be successfully prosecuted for such publication.
The first and last time state officials were successfully prosecuted for involvement in the death of a black person was in November 1971, when two police officers received short criminal sentences for involvement in the death of a homeless Nigerian migrant, David Oluwale.
Then, publications could be (and regularly were) successfully prosecuted for contempt of court if a report "tended" to prejudice the administration of justice, but a seminal judgment of the supreme court of appeal, South Africa's highest court on non-constitutional matters, reviewed the test in 2007.
"Will money flow through this business because it offers a compelling product at a decent price, or will the money come because of an illicit relationship with someone who uses their power?" Wrage told me that, in 2009, an American entrepreneur was successfully prosecuted for his part in a corruption conspiracy in Azerbaijan.
