QUESTIONS OF FAIRNESS Accusations of racial profiling and overzealous prosecution helped turn the case in Dr. Lee's favor.
It was the Hinckley family's prosperity that allowed it to hire Williams and Connolly, whose aggressive advocacy, along with that of the prosecution, helped make the trial a vigorous contest.
One juror, who declined to give his name, said a video of Mr. Powell's behavior at the police station after his arrest, which was introduced by the prosecution, helped the jurors reach their decision.
Investigators then discovered evidence that he had already abused at least one child, and his successful prosecution helped lead to a new 1996 state law making it a felony to disseminate indecent materials to a minor.
The Czech underground rock band has a storied history: the group's 1976 arrest and prosecution helped motivate the playwright Vaclav Havel and other artists and intellectuals to form Charter 77, the human-rights-manifesto-cum-movement that laid the groundwork for the Velvet Revolution, more than a decade later.
Criminal prosecutions help victims re-gain sense of status as rights holder and so enhance dignity (Nino 1998, Bennett 2008).
He predicted that the prosecution would help Democratic attempts to expand their legislative majority.
But others said they believed that removing the commander from the prosecution would help increase the amount of widely underreported sexual assault crimes by victims who fear retaliation.
"If you give the prosecution some help," Mr. Dieter said of defendants in such cases, "you'll get something out of it".
One part of the Justice Department mess that requires more scrutiny is the growing evidence that the department may have singled out people for criminal prosecution to help Republicans win elections.
