It was the prosecution's task to convince the jury that these inconspicuous men were something extraordinary: murderers.
Unfortunately, it is a highly politicised organ, created on the initiative of the very states which attacked Yugoslavia in 1999, and whose judges have disgraced themselves by bending the rules to facilitate the prosecution's task.
He said that the court would proceed as if the defendants were present and that, although no pleas had been entered, they would be presumed to have pleaded not guilty and it would be the prosecution's task to prove guilt beyond all reasonable doubt.
The prosecution was tasked with proving that the officer's actions, or lack thereof, eventually lead to Gray's death, but the jury failed to reach a verdict.
He was acquiring the military manpower, the plunder, and the prestige that he needed to secure a free hand for the prosecution of the task of reorganizing the Roman state and the rest of the Greco-Roman world.
Hill, detailing the prosecution case, said: "The task of the firearms team was to disrupt criminal activity.
At one point, she took prosecution lawyer Adrian Mopp to task, saying: "This is day 20 of the trial and the State is still scurrying around".
At NCS the main task is the prosecution and disruption of organised crime syndicates.
But Kavanagh will surely take him to task for the prosecution under his watch of fellow Sun journalists over payments to public officials, several of whom were denied from offering public interest defences at trial.
A highly touted pair of DNA legal experts, Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, were brought in from New York to take on the prosecution's physical evidence, a task they tackled with vigor.
Mr. Barofsky followed up by asking Mr. Breuer why Preet S. Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, whose office has been out front in bringing securities-fraud prosecutions, wasn't on the task forces.
