Although those exhumations will not result in prosecutions -- at least for now -- policy experts said they played an important role.
The most senior judge in England and Wales also warned about the possible dangers of more prosecutions being privatised as state funding is being cut for both the police and Crown Prosecution Service, writing: "There is an increase in private prosecutions at a time of retrenchment of state activity".
Seraphim knew that it had been taken away by Robert W Kempner, a German-Jewish lawyer who had been deprived of his citizenship and exiled by the Nazis, and had returned from the US to play a leading part in the prosecutions at Nuremberg.
In interviews, the lawyer and two other Army lawyers each traced the spike in prosecutions to a policy change at the beginning of 2002 that required commanders to welcome back soldiers who deserted or went AWOL.
The Army said the desertion rate was within historical norms, and that the surge in prosecutions, which are at the discretion of unit commanders, was not a surprise given the impact that absent soldiers can have during wartime.
A Sudanese citizen and a onetime confidant of Osama bin Laden's, Fadl is expected to serve as a central witness in the prosecutions of at least two suspected terrorists being held at the U.S. detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Whether future investigations end in "prosecutions" or "reconciliations" or maybe nothing at all basically depends on what crime you're referring to!
At a time of rising tensions between Washington and Tehran, the American initiative has produced a spike in criminal prosecutions against at least 70 individuals and companies over illegal exports to Iran since late 2006, many involving military components, according to Justice Department data.
The BNP showed no interest in prosecutions.
This rise in prosecutions is significant because a large number of prosecutions have resulted in criminal trial and conviction.
"That said, I never saw a case in this special category where I could discern the remotest public interest in prosecution … Looking at these tragic cases and considering the dreadful plight of the relatives, I struggled to see them as criminals.
