If one asks current or former WikiLeaks associates what their greatest fear is, almost none cites prosecution by their own country.
But the trial of public opinion continued, and two recent articles in The Daily News cited prosecution witnesses who said that Mr. Combs, who is known as Puffy, had a gun.
Prosecutors said they had found hundreds of millions of dollars Mr. Lee kept in bank accounts opened under the names of acquaintances and were investigating whether the money was cash he had inherited from his father and had hidden from the tax authorities or embezzled from his companies, the South Korean media reported, citing prosecution sources.
Bush administration lawyers cited potential prosecutions under the law as a reason not to give detainees at Guantánamo Bay the protections of the Geneva Conventions.
He cited the prosecutions of the former House majority leader Tom DeLay, a Republican of Texas convicted of laundering corporate money in a state election, and of former Gov. Don Siegelman of Alabama, a Democrat, who was convicted of bribery and honest services charges.
It cites numerous prosecutions under the "material support" law, which makes it a crime to provide any aid, even in the form of speech, to a blacklisted organization, even if that assistance is not intended to and in fact does not further violence.
Countering the barrage of scrutiny, Alvarez recently asserted that she "won't apologize for the length of time" Van Dyke's prosecution took, as the result of a "meticulous, thorough, comprehensive investigation," and cited the prosecution of 96 law enforcement officers during her tenure.
Mr. Valentin cited four prosecution witnesses who said they saw or smelled pepper spray in the stairwell.
Other critics, however, including President Dmitri A. Medvedev, cited the prosecution's errors and unfamiliarity with the jury system, which is relatively new in Russia, in the acquittals.
Prosecutors planned to file a court request for an arrest warrant on Wednesday, Yonhap and other media said, citing a prosecution official.
