Risk of prosecution: MINIMAL.
Every successful prosecution, every network disabled or trafficking route severed delivers a clear message that human trafficking and migrant smuggling are no longer the easy crimes of yesterday.
But the judge's decision alludes to at least two routes through which the government could reinstate a prosecution.
But activists said that the route leads residents to government-controlled areas, where they fear prosecution and torture, especially in the wake of the killings of scores of Sunni Muslims in government-held Tartus Province this month.
"Whatever is decided by the authorities over a possible criminal prosecution, Helen and I are serious about going down the civil action route and support for that is growing," he said.
Garfield immediately demanded Brady's resignation and started prosecutions led by Postmaster James that would end in the famous "star route" indictments and trials for conspiracy.
And "no-win, no-fee" agreements, also introduced in 2000, provide another route for impoverished litigants.True, says Mr Stephens, though that applies only to the prosecution.
In their verdict, they tossed out much of the prosecution witnesses' evidence as false or questionable and said the prosecution had failed to prove crucial elements, including the route that the bomb suitcase took.
Politkovskaya's route home: in order to demonstrate that Ibragim had waited as a lookout for Politkovskaya's car, the prosecution produced a map on which they charted her route home from the supermarket.
Hernández also cited widespread rumours that the president could seek to avoid prosecution by getting his supporters in the military to stage a short-term coup that could provide him with a route to political exile.
