By coincidence, three cases on the court's criminal docket involve defendants named Banks.
The nolle prosequi thus serves as a screening device that enables the district attorney to exercise a measure of control over the criminal docket.
Professor Cassell said of Richard Roe: "He's challenging the power and ability of the courts to run a secret criminal docket.
"The mass murder of Americans by terrorists, or the planning thereof, is not just another item on the criminal docket," Vice President Dick Cheney told a cheering audience of conservative lawyers on Thursday.
Prosecutions for immigration offenses in recent years have grown to take up roughly half of the federal criminal docket.
He subsequently served as a general jurisdiction trial judge presiding over a civil and criminal docket, having been appointed to fill an unexpired term in Benton County Arkansas.
The new system spread over the next decade, immigration violations swallowed up an ever-larger chunk of the federal criminal docket.
But what began as a tailored effort to address a single sector's problem quickly morphed into a borderwide initiative, swallowing up half the federal criminal docket by 2009.
