One person briefed on the matter characterized the investigation as a "big case," saying it would likely result in arrests before the end of the new year, with the defendants numbering in the double digits.
"Defendant number 1", the store owner, has been taking medication for mental illness for years and suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, the charge sheet said.
Defendant number one, Yakub Memon, had told reporters, who mixed freely with the defendants in the confines of Arthur Road jail and its "special" court, that the family was innocent.
Listed as defendant number 33, the evidence consists of being cc'd on emails of other co-defendants in the same case as part of a bid to undermine Egypt's national security by having contact with Hamas and Iran.
Once police officers realised that they no longer had the power to prevent solicitors from being present in interviews and, under the new regime of tape-recorded interviews, the opportunity to "verbal" defendants, the number of cases in which there was a sudden confession by suspects declined dramatically.
Nevertheless, benches will have to be very careful with the fine balance between 'efficiency' and justice, especially with unrepresented defendants whose numbers can only increase because of legal aid cutbacks.
Eligibility for supervised release in New York is determined by a risk-assessment tool that consists of eight questions, including the defendant's number of felony convictions in the last nine years, prior warrants, and their full-time activity.
Ten years later, Congress abrogated Shackleford, granting prosecutors five peremptory challenges in treason and capital cases (and two in non-capital felony cases); the 1865 act left the defendant's number of peremptory challenges unchanged.
Since May this year, eight defendants, a record number, have accepted deals with the prosecution and pleaded guilty to various crimes related to the wars that broke up Yugoslavia.
The MoJ said: "Arrangements have been put in place, under which self-employed barristers have been instructed to represent defendants in a number of Very High Cost Cases.
