Although the commission went to great lengths at the hearing to demonstrate the guilty plea was given voluntarily, it is hard to believe the conditions and lack of access to trial for all those years did not put considerable pressure on Noor to agree to a deal.
That perhaps suggests that evidence uncovered in baseball's investigation into Biogenesis, a defunct South Florida anti-aging clinic, demonstrated Rodriguez was guilty of something.
As this week's guilty plea demonstrated, the trio have nothing in common with the Birmingham Six or the Guildford Four except for the handy shorthand of a numerical name.
As Silvio Berlusconi yesterday tried to shore up his position by declaring himself irreplaceable as Italy's head of government, a court in Milan was told it had been "amply demonstrated" that he was guilty of bribery.
The not-guilty verdict demonstrated that it would be challenging to build successful cases against Wall Street executives at the center of the financial crisis.
"But I would submit to the court that it would be hard to imagine any more circumstances possible that demonstrate he was guilty of being the actual perpetrator of the killing of Dean Meyers".
But as "The Sandbaggers" vigorously demonstrates, there are guilty pleasures to be savored here, even in this perpetual night where, like Matthew Arnold's ignorant armies, the world's intelligence services clash.
"The six offences to which Fisher pleaded guilty demonstrate the extreme danger he poses to the public.
While not necessarily bringing reconciliation or deterring future crimes in the short term, they can, by honoring victims, rendering justice and imposing punishment on the guilty, demonstrate the rule of law in the communities most affected by the crimes.
The committee's chair, Labour MP Margaret Hodge, said the BBC was "far too complacent" about the risks inherent in the project and said the BBC Trust, chaired by Lord Patten, "demonstrated similar complacency" and was guilty of "poor oversight".
