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Mr. Coughlin said he believed that federal prosecutions, in which life sentences are generally the minimum penalty for piracy, could discourage pirates across the globe.

Criminal justice officials say Mr. Ayala-Cornejo's actions could have put their work at risk, for instance by compromising prosecutions in which he gave testimony.

But the super-recognizers have succeeded with prosecutions in which they have offered "indirect identifications" — establishing familiarity with a suspect through repeated exposure to his likeness on CCTV.

But two contributors to the documentary have criticised the programmes, saying evidence of successful prosecutions in which ritual abuse had been alleged was ignored by producers and Mr Aaronovitch had presented a "conspiracy theory" that Satanic abuse was a fantasy.

The result is an unusual burst of prosecutions in which young women using drugs are shocked to find themselves in the cross hairs for harming their children, even before giving birth.

Writing about this at the time, Hossam Bahgat saw it as an attempt by the Mubarak regime to undercut Islamist opposition by portraying the state as the guardian of public virtue: "To counter this ascending [Islamist] power, the state resorts to sensational prosecutions, in which the regime steps in to protect Islam from evil apostates.

He was one of two men convicted of the killing after a "joint enterprise" prosecution in which there had initially been nine defendants.

A bank-robbery prosecution in which the defendant had been convicted earlier of picking the lock of a safe in the same way as in the current case would almost certainly be allowed in evidence.

Virgin Media offered the Metropolitan police a 25% share of compensation recovered from fraudsters the company had targeted in a private prosecution, in which the Met used its powers of arrest and search as part of the private prosecution.

This case could have put on trial the post-September 11 strategy of "preventative prosecution", in which the FBI dispatches provocateurs to infiltrate targeted religious and political groups to see what they can stir up.

For periods, these inquests felt like an inversion of a criminal prosecution, in which police officers were repeatedly accused of lying, covering up and perverting the course of justice, while sticking insistently to their stories.