Thirty-nine miners charged at Orgreave sued South Yorkshire police for unlawful arrest and malicious prosecution, a case settled with the payment of £425,000 and no admission of liability.
One of the few successful post-9/11 terror prosecutions -- a case in Detroit -- seems to be unraveling.
He has handled a number of the office's high-profile terrorism prosecutions, including a case in which five defendants were convicted in two trials of plotting to blow up the jet-fuel supply tanks at John F. Kennedy International airport.
Last year, a new state law reined in the use of unsupervised informers in drug prosecutions after a case in which 12percentt of the black population of Tulia, Tex., was arrested, mainly on the word of an undercover agent.
Clogged court calendars can hamper the prosecution of a case and impinge on defendants' rights.
He also asked an assistant United States attorney, Ronnie Abrams, about the statute of limitations that can bar prosecution of a case.
Ms Tuncel's newly-acquired parliamentary immunity protects her from further prosecution in a case that rested on her frequent trips to PKK camps in northern Iraq.
And it took them 10 days to reach a verdict siding with the prosecution in a case where analysts thought a government victory was virtually guaranteed.
It was when Gov. Mario M. Cuomo appointed him to take over the prosecution of a case that still looms large in city history — the fatal Howard Beach racial attack in 1986 — that Mr. Hynes became a political star.
Many a trial, longtime observers say, follows a formula where the prosecution fabricates a case, the defense issues a bogus rebuttal, and the judge rules for the side offering the bigger bribe.
Judge Lifland's decision essentially gutted the government's prosecution of a case that sharply divided Orange, a compact city of 30,000; sent out political and racial ripples; and prompted accusations of police brutality.
