Speaking by telephone from Richmond on Friday, Mr. Comey said he was confident the office would maintain its critical role in prosecuting terrorism, despite the decision last month by Attorney General John Ashcroft to indict Zacarias Moussaoui, the first case stemming from the Sept. 11 attacks, in Virginia rather than New York.
Documents released at the National Archives in Kew, west London, reveal how Mrs Thatcher became exasperated after police and prosecutors insisted there were no grounds for prosecuting Mr Chauhan despite his trenchant rhetoric against India's most illustrious political dynasty.
A bus driver accused of being so tired that he caused one of the deadliest crashes in New York City's history was found not guilty of manslaughter and negligent homicide on Friday, underscoring the difficulty of prosecuting drowsy driving despite successful efforts to use the courts to discourage other dangerous habits while at the wheel.
Despite new legislation aimed at prosecuting those who misuse new forms of communication to post threatening, harassing, or grossly offensive language - or cyber hate - and the fact large social media companies have committed to protecting their users from harm, it goes largely unpunished due to difficulties in policing online public spaces.
The Crown Prosecution Service said it would drop its case despite having previously said there was "significant public interest" in prosecuting the men.
Despite a good deal of ambivalence, especially when it came to prosecuting alleged war criminals, Latvia acknowledged the extent of local collaboration with the Nazis.
All this happened despite the work of the ICTY and war crimes courts in both Serbia and Croatia in prosecuting individual cases.
The CPS advised police that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute, despite a witness in the case claiming he was abused by the politician at the age of 13. "The decision not to charge Lord Janner in 1991 was wrong and there was enough evidence against him to provide a realistic prospect of conviction for offences of indecent assault and buggery," Sir Richard's report said.
With the help of canny legal representatives, he confounded efforts to prosecute him, despite being arrested dozens of times.
They follow a barrage of criticism of her ruling last week that it would not be in the public interest to prosecute Lord Janner despite sufficient evidence to justify charges over at least 25 allegations of historical child sex abuse.
The decision not to prosecute came despite comments by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair that any move to charge Ms Moss would take into account her effect on "impressionable young people".
