In a series of increasingly frantic press releases, the I.A.A.F. has argued that the biological-passport process is working: more than a hundred and fifty cases have been referred to its expert panel since 2011, resulting in sixty-three prosecutions, and suspicious results have repeatedly been used to trigger "intelligence-led, no-advance-notice, OOC [out-of-competition] testing".
The Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act of 1955 resulted in only two prosecutions in 1970, but the stigma of comics as "harmful publications" has never entirely gone away.
There was another big difference in the two prosecutions - a different federal judge.
There have only been two prosecutions in the last four years, she said.
After being extradited from Sudan to Italy, the alleged smuggler faced two prosecutions, first in Sicily and then in Rome, despite a series of Guardian articles that revealed doubts about the identity of the man in custody.
Sources say Alphonse Trucchio took over his father's crew after Ronnie One Arm was convicted of racketeering charges in two separate prosecutions in Florida and sentenced to life in prison three years ago.
That limitation has not been followed in the three prosecutions that have been brought under the law, according to a recent government brief.
This afternoon's summations followed the testimony of three defense witnesses who said that Mr. Skakel never confessed to the killing in the late 1970's while he was attending a private school for troubled youths in Maine, contradicting two prosecution witnesses who testified last week that he had admitted the crime.
While serving in the Justice Department after 9/11, he helped create a national registry to track immigrants from countries with a "high risk" of terrorism an effort that resulted in zero terrorism prosecutions but put nearly fourteen thousand people in deportation proceedings.
In Ireland in 2010, a similar approach led to just four prosecutions in the first five years, and use levels were up by 22% in 2014, according to a 2014 European commission report.
