If a crime is thought to have occurred on a Native reservation or within a Native community, it's not always clear which agency is going to be in charge of prosecution.
As Human Rights Watch reported, the Egyptian general in charge of military prosecutions, Adel Morsy, told reporters last month that military tribunals started hearing cases against civilians on Jan . 28 just three days into Egypt's revolution, and had conducted nearly 12,000 trials by the end of August, with more than 8,000 convictions.
In the first six months of this year, 1,455 arrest warrants have been issued by the Iraqi Commission of Public Integrity, in charge of corruption prosecutions (though only 397 people have been convicted on corruption charges since the commission began its work in 2004 until the end of last year).
On Thursday, a spokeswoman for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) confirmed that Cunningham, the senior lawyer in charge of the prosecution, had "retired from the CPS while the disciplinary process was ongoing.
The police arrested him on a charge of hindering prosecution and an unrelated charge of marijuana possession.
With little public explanation, a Marine general in charge of the prosecution dropped the charges against Lance Cpl.
Mr. Perry pleaded not guilty to a charge of hindering prosecution in State Supreme Court on Staten Island on Monday, Mr. Smith said.
A SPOKESMAN for the Pennsylvania attorney general's office, which is in charge of the prosecution, declined to comment for this column, citing the gag order.
The Liberal Democrat peer was in charge of the prosecution service in England and Wales from 2003-2008 and oversaw numerous charges and convictions of terrorists in the courts.
