This is not the case on railways, however, where bylaws permit criminal prosecution (with a six-month statute of limitation).
Of the states in which McLaughlin said he was abused, only Maryland permitted criminal charges more than 20 years after the events.
Termed a "second chance program," it would make New York the only state to permit criminal records to be sealed -- and employers denied knowledge of an applicant's criminal past -- five years after a convict's sentence is completed.
Michele Dunne, an expert on Egypt at the Atlantic Council, a Washington research institution, said the motives of Egypt's military leaders in permitting the criminal case to advance were murky.
Federal law permits a criminal trial to proceed with fewer than 11 jurors, but only with the consent of both the defense and the prosecution.
The wall is critical because the act allows wiretapping and the search of espionage and terrorism suspects under more lenient standards than the Constitution permits in criminal prosecutions.
"Accepting that permits the criminal justice system to continue to suck us up like a vacuum cleaner and deposit us like waste in custodian institutions.
At an address to the National Press Club on Wednesday, Dodson, who was on the royal commission, said the number of Aboriginal people in jail was now double that in 1991 – thanks, he said, to a culture "that permits the criminal justice system to continue to suck us up like a vacuum cleaner and deposit us like waste in custodial institutions".
*Eliminate the requirement that the attorney general personally has to authorize using certain intelligence evidence in a criminal case, permitting him to designate an assistant attorney general to make such authorizations.
Federal courts, wrongly, do not permit televising of criminal trials.
