No amount of specialized training and threats of criminal prosecution seem capable of slowing the stories that emerge periodically and predictably of another government worker getting into trouble for drawing up private records not just on Hollywood actors, rock stars and political candidates but everyday people, too.
The trials as they stand are an abomination, permeated with systemic pro-prosecution bias, and capable of handing down a life sentence only in a one-sided show trial (that of Ali Hamza al-Bahlul), which passed largely unnoticed in the week before the Presidential election.
Tim Moloney QC said: "Whilst every effort was made by the parties and the trial judge to ensure that the proceedings were fair, there was a marked inequality of resources between the prosecution and defence which was capable of producing injustice.
The prosecution experts testified that he was capable of assisting his lawyers and testifying in his own defense if necessary.
Their testimony was central to the prosecution case that Hill was fully mentally capable and should be put to death for his crimes.
The prosecution must prove not only is Jerry Sandusky capable of these crimes, but that he committed these crimes.
Before these prosecutions go any further, the administration should overhaul its procedures until it has a system capable of exonerating the innocent, and of showing a skeptical world that those who are convicted are in fact guilty.
At present, a drunk person may be regarded as capable of consenting to sex, even if he or she does not remember doing so afterwards.The Criminal Bar Association, which represents both prosecution and defence barristers, is sceptical.
It also criticised the adequacy of current knowledge of the investigative utility of a range of forensic genetic technologies and suggested the establishment of an international 'observatory' capable of collating comparative data on the effectiveness of uses of forensic genetics in support of criminal investigations and prosecutions.
