Both Mary Robinson, the UN high commissioner for human rights, and Louise Arbour, the prosecutor for the war-crimes tribunal in The Hague (separate from the ICJ), say that NATO's behaviour, as well as Mr Milosevic's, is subject to the laws of war and may yet be investigated.Ms Arbour's main job, of course, is to investigate Mr Milosevic and his minions.
But when the case came up for appeal in 2009, Judge Richard Posner, writing for the majority, personally attacked the prosecutor for not proving that the product was dangerous.
While I had written the piece entirely from a desk in Washington, Perriello was inspired to move to West Africa and work as an adviser to the prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
Peter N. Gilbreth currently serves as the prosecutor for both Mendham Township and Borough and for Madison Borough, making $38,000 a year for all three jobs.
"I've been locked in my cell 24 hours a day for the past 10 days, allowed out only for visits to the prosecutor for questioning," he writes.
Meanwhile, all the rewards for the prosecutor, at any level, are for making more prisoners.
The Justice Department's new guidelines for naming monitors call for the prosecutor to discuss the appointment with an advisory committee and get approval from the department's No. 2 official.
Gerry Leone, who oversaw the Waltham investigation as the district attorney until leaving his post in mid-April to join a law firm, declined to comment on the inquiry, as did a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office and a spokesman for the state police.
In today's corrections system there is no incentive for the prosecutor to seek reparation for the victims.
Asked whether the Serbian authorities were really looking for Mr. Mladic, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Serge Brammertz, gave an equivocal response: "It is difficult for me to answer this question".
