Darius Charney of the Center for Constitutional Rights, one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs in the case against the city, welcomed the judge's decision, saying that Mr. Bloomberg had a strong command of the case.
Tom Wood, the former deputy chief constable of Lothian and Borders police, who was in command of the case until his retirement in 2005, described the effect of the murders on Edinburgh.
Have command of the case.
"He was, like Roberts, a brilliant lawyer and clearly had command of the cases and the calendar," Professor Simon said.
It was the Scottish seat of command in case of a nuclear attack," Mulholland recalls over a steaming cup of cocoa.
The South Korean armed forces are under South Korean command in peacetime, but under United States command in case of war.
During the flights, the UAV was always in radio contact in order to monitor its condition and to secure a return command in case of a trouble or an emergency.
However, Minh did not come to assist Diệm, and the president responded by appointing him to the post of Presidential Military Advisor, where he had no influence or troops to command in case the thought of coup ever crossed his mind.
As Sarah Plummer, a beautiful ex-Marine who served in Iraq and says she was raped by a fellow Marine who was never prosecuted, explained to NBC News's Jim Miklaszewski: "Having someone within your direct chain of command handling the case" is like "your brother raping you and having your dad decide the case".
But his departure, lawyers say, would be a blow to the prosecution's efforts in a retrial because of his encyclopedic command of the details of the case and a tenacious commitment to it.
