Rove was also quick to dismiss the notion that his refusal to testify in a probe of the Bush administration's firing of federal prosecutors amounted to too much political baggage for a news analyst to carry.
In a 6-to-3 decision in September, the court told Mr. Hood that he had taken too long to raise the issue of whether a love affair between a judge and a prosecutor amounted to a conflict of interest.
He is not expected to be the "exemplar" of his country as you suggest that role belongs to the heroes and saints promoted by the media.The office of special prosecutor amounts to a fourth branch of government.
It has been bypassed by investors, as it suffers from a paucity of fashionable high-tech and telecoms shares.Losses at FlowTex Technologie, a German engineering firm that was recently raided by prosecutors, could amount to DM3 billion ($1.5 billion), according to its auditors.
The jury also was not told about statements Mr. Ghailani had made to interrogators before he was brought into the civilian court system, statements that prosecutors say "amount to a confession" of his role in the 1998 bombings of two American Embassies in East Africa, killing 224 people.
The deaths, prosecutors said, amounted to crimes against humanity.
Zimmerman's account, one prosecutor said, amounted to little more than "a tangled web of lies".
Early in the case, he said, the extent of his communication with special prosecutor Ken Kratz amounted to discussions on "if there was going to be a deal, what would be the requirement of it".
Sarao agreed to pay the US government $12.8m£10.3m3m), the amount prosecutors said he earned from illegal trading.
His lawyer protested that he was a wealthy man with no reason to kill for $20,000, the amount prosecutors said Dr. Borukhova paid.
