She said this would help those involved in multi-defendant cases – whether as victims, witnesses, relatives or defendants themselves – understand the workings of the prosecution process "and, potentially at least, view it as legitimate".
This approach would also address confusion that occurs in multi-defendant cases where it is clear that each defendant should forfeit whatever interest he may have in the property used to commit the offense, but it is not at all clear which defendant is the actual owner of the property.
Prosecutors are appealing several of those defendants' cases.
These kinds of fines snowball when defendants' cases are turned over to for-profit probation companies for collection, since the companies charge their own "supervision" fees.
The defendants' cases and final proceedings fill about 7000 pages, so flipping through them is little fun, but it's a great advantage to know where a defendant's documents books and pleas were entered.
No further details about the defendants' cases were immediately available.
A representative for the Los Angeles County Employee Retirement Assn., which administers pensions for the Sheriff's Department, said county officials were reviewing the defendants' cases.
Last week, the ACLU filed a motion challenging the government's censorship of torture and abuse in the 9/11 defendants' case.
With those hopes quashed, the relatives said they were now hoping for stiff punishment as the defendants' case wends its way through the juvenile justice system of Wayne County, Pa.
Making legal submissions, their barrister James Dingemans QC said: "It is not part of the defendants' case to undermine the rights of same-sex partners.
The hedging by the principal accuser certainly weakens the defendants' case".
