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The new law extended the time in which prosecutions were allowed and authorized prosecutions that the old law's deadline had barred.

But so far all of them have floundered on the rock of time – the statute of limitations that restricts the period after an alleged crime in which prosecutions can be brought.

The National Prosecuting Authority controversially dropped the charges when he produced an illegally obtained tape in which prosecution chiefs discussed his case.

Robert M. Chesney, of Wake Forest University School of Law, said Mr. Mukasey's statements could influence the climate in which prosecution decisions are made.

They referred to the information as "Brady material," a reference to a case in which prosecution material was favorable to the defendant.

A recent study by the Texas Defender Service, a group that represents defendants in capital cases, examined 155 such cases in which prosecution experts had predicted, often with a claim of scientific certainty, that the defendants would commit more violent crimes.

However, Neil Hay, a solicitor-advocate based in Falkirk, said the judgment had "shaken the foundations of Scotland's justice system," and said he expected that at least 100 of the alleged suspects on his books would have their cases thrown out because of the way in which prosecution evidence had been gathered.

A1 Death Penalty Cases Faulted A study examining 155 Texas death penalty cases, in which prosecution experts had predicted that the defendants would commit more violent crimes, a requisite for juries to impose the death penalty under Texas law, concluded the experts "were wrong 95percentt of the time".

The case is among a wave of sexual abuse cases involving Orthodox Jews that the Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, is prosecuting after decades in which such prosecutions were rare.

More than four-fifths of FCPA cases against companies since 2010 have been settled with deferred-prosecution or non-prosecution agreements that is, out-of-court settlements in which the prosecution's case does not undergo the scrutiny of a judge.

"Blagojevich highlights the way in which the prosecution creates sentencing disparities based on privilege," Ms. Siegler said.