First, the reports in a given year and the prosecutions in a given year are not necessarily directly related given that the statute of limitations allows for prosecution up to five years following report.
Because the statute of limitations for prosecution is 5 years from time of report, the number of prosecutions in a given year does not necessarily relate directly to the number of reports in the same year.
Speculation is widespread that his resignation might have been in exchange for the government giving up prosecution or for a guilty plea to a minor charge.
Mr. McFadden, an agent for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, gave the prosecution its most damaging testimony against Mr. Hamdan.
He also said that it was important for the government to be involved, given deferred prosecution agreements reached a few years ago between the Justice Department and makers of artificial hips and knees after investigations of illegal kickbacks to surgeons to use their products.
In her closing argument, Clare Montgomery, a lawyer for the prosecution, gave a robust and sometimes scathing response, eliciting audible intakes of breath in the courtroom, in which she accused Mr. Robertson of minimizing rape.
Corporate lenders caught up in the mortgage scandals should not assume they will be given the chance for a deferred prosecution, Mr. Dickinson said, and the Justice Department should "insist on a guilty plea" rather than offering a deal.
The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
Pinochet retained the command of the armed forces, and when he stepped down from that role, in 1998, he retained a senatorship-for-life, which gave him immunity from prosecution.
Three South Africans have admitted their involvement in her murder and have, in return for time off their prison sentences or for immunity from prosecution, given witness evidence against Shrien Dewani.
The court-appointed trial lawyers for Mr. Hoffman, convicted of killing a jewelry store owner during a robbery, were not told that the main witness against him had been paid for his cooperation and was given immunity from prosecution and a reduced sentence for bank robbery.
