In its case against Clemens, the government has the advantage of direct testimony from McNamee; in the Bonds case Anderson's loyalty has deprived the prosecution of the hammer it may need for a conviction.
The mood in court was electric, she said: the spirit of the blitz was evoked, with sleep-deprived prosecution and defence lawyers sharing food and mobile phone batteries in the small hours.
According to the complaint, Ohio State withheld information that could have shown Clarett did nothing wrong and by doing so subjected him to prosecution and deprived him of his property rights.
During a series of court martial hearings that ended earlier this year, prosecution lawyers alleged the detainees were handcuffed, hooded, deprived of sleep and forced to maintain a "stress position": backs to the wall, knees bent and arms outstretched.
Clarkson and Edwards are keen to stay in the game, they say, even as they come to terms with the reality that they will be unable to take on wrongdoing on a large scale, deprived of the attorney general's office as a platform for prosecution.
The prosecution alleged that Iraqi detainees were handcuffed, hooded with sacks, deprived of sleep and forced to maintain a "stress position" - backs to the wall, knees bent and arms outstretched.
Past economies, particularly the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Prosecution of Offenders Act 2012 (Laspo), it says, have reduced the justice system to a state of crisis with hundreds of thousands of people being deprived of the legal support.
I felt surprised, and deprived.
BEHIND THE NEWS In an important test of whether the rights afforded to defendants in American courts would thwart prosecution of terror suspects, the judge rejected Mr. Ghailani's claim that being detained for nearly five years at Guant?mo had deprived him of his constitutional right to a speedy trial.
