But one member of the panel, speaking generally about how they had reached their decision, pointed to the prosecution.
And Mrs. Astor's inquiry about whether she could now buy dresses points to the prosecution's contention that Mr. Marshall told her she was running out of money, leading her to believe the painting needed to be sold.
He pointed to the prosecution's failure to call two witnesses who could have given direct evidence about what Slipper did, who he met and spoke to on the journeys.
While federal officials can point to some successes — prosecutions, seizures of money and tightened money-laundering regulations in foreign countries — the results have often been frustrating, the cables show.
Although it is impossible to determine how much of the drug trade Mexicans control, federal prosecutions point to their growing role.
But the defence lawyers, who can point to the ten years the prosecution has had to prepare its case, are bound to ask for more time.
One of the only pieces of material evidence the prosecution could point to was that during a search of his apartment, investigators found the same clothes Kosenko had been wearing at the protest on May 6th.
In terms of the Trayvon Martin case, one can point to the weakness of the prosecution, the broad nature of the "Stand Your Ground" law, or any number of additional factors that contributed to Zimmerman's acquittal.
Critics of the military commissions at Guantánamo often point to the "success" of terrorism prosecutions in domestic criminal courts.
Mr. Ashcroft's advisers point to a 38percentt increase in prosecutions of gun crimes since 2001 as evidence of his success.
