They cannot find a single prosecution to brag about.
"If the prosecution found a homeless guy at a train station" who claimed that Mr. Skakel confessed to the murder, Mr. Santos said, "he would be on the stand in a New York minute".
Authorities have launched 46 criminal prosecutions and found an Iraqi man guilty, the first conviction based on the new laws.
Bush/Cheney found civilian prosecution a perfectly acceptable path to pursue in 828 cases.
Deprived of his own work, he was harassed with threats to find a job or face prosecution for parasitism.
But the suit was never found, and prosecution witnesses changed their testimony from their original statements.
He said the court found "the prosecution of Mrs Tymoshenko in Ukraine had nothing to do with the law, had nothing to do with democratic standards, had nothing to do with a criminal prosecution".
But that verdict was overturned in February by the State Supreme Court, which found the prosecution had failed to prove the defendants had known about the illegal partitions.
In the absence of witnesses to the Pistorius shooting, however, Nair found the prosecution case rested on "nothing more than circumstantial evidence".
But it also means that if the jury found the prosecution's version of events compelling, Ms. Stewart and Mr. Bacanovic -- who also did not testify -- will not have provided them with an alternative.
I have found the prosecution has failed in this respect and the defendant has raised the issue of lawful self-defence and as such is entitled to be acquitted".
