With the scandals of the past, we're getting prosecutions with Enron, etc., and so on.
"If you had got prosecutions of those three (including Milosevic) then you'd get a really good picture of the way the violence was produced but we're not getting it," said Eric Gordy, an expert on the court at University College London.
Academic Nina Power agrees: "When they are making these arrests, it isn't about getting prosecutions but about showing who's in charge... as well as putting activists out of action through ridiculous bail conditions for charges that are never made".
"Basically, you've got prosecution trying to sell their product to the jury" – their product being the idea that Glossip offered to pay Sneed for Van Treese's murder, Knight, Glossip's new attorney, said of the trials.
"Time elapses, cases get dismissed, prosecutions do not take place.
I'm pretty confident we will get some prosecutions," added Baker, the government lead on FGM.
3.30pm: Jay asks what information the News of the World needed to provide to the police in order to get successful prosecutions after its investigations.
Committee chairman Frank Field said: "The shift to the focus on victims is not only the morally right thing to do in and of itself, it is essential if we are to get the prosecutions necessary to try to end this evil.
"The shift to the focus on victims is not only the morally right thing to do in and of itself, it is essential if we are to get the prosecutions necessary to try to end this evil," he said.
As of now, Conyers and Nadler aren't exactly looking for over-flow space for their meetings on how to get criminal prosecutions going.
