The judicial prosecutor of the appeals court, Beatriz Pedrals, said the purpose of the investigation was to seek "uniformity of criteria, in other words, what has not been investigated, the courts will investigate".
The Judicial Prosecutor's office in Costa Rica said last month that it was conducting a criminal investigation into two I.R.S. special agents, James Dowling and Diane Taggert, on a complaint from Mr. Anderson's local lawyer, Moises Vincenzi.
From the time that she was arrested and eventually admitted to the hospital, Ms. Kazemi reportedly spent several days being shuttled between the custody of judicial prosecutors, the police and the intelligence ministry.
The Prosecution further argued that a single trial would promote judicial economy (Prosecutor v. Milošević 27 November 2001, pp. 15 18).
He told VICE News: "We thought in 2008 that EULEX could fix the judicial system, prosecutors, and police.
"The parties have so conferred and believe that a stay of the briefing schedule and a continuance of the detention hearing might permit a resolution in the interests of judicial economy," prosecutors wrote Thursday in the filing.
NTV Television, citing unidentified judicial officials, said prosecutors had ordered the detention of 95 suspects.
But with corruption plaguing many judicial systems and prosecutors overwhelmed with drug cases, many who are accused of crimes spend far longer than they expect in legal limbo, leaving prisons like Comayagua's grossly overcrowded.
Nonetheless, after years of judicial wrangling, the prosecutors were unable to win convictions, and the charges against Marseglia and his associates were dismissed in 2004, when the statute of limitations in their cases expired.
But because companies are eager to resolve cases out of court — an indictment could severely damage a company — there is almost no judicial oversight on prosecutors' interpretation of the act.
In the memorandum, Deputy Attorney General David Ogden conceded that "even isolated lapses can have a disproportionate effect on public and judicial confidence in prosecutors and the criminal justice system".
