We know that what was found in his home wasn't technically classified as child pornography, but was enough for prosecutors to mark them as circumstantial evidence in his molestation case.
The indictments, made on May 18 but unsealed today, added fresh details to the tale of corruption that prosecutors say marked Mr. Lazarenko's career.
He took charge of bathing Hailey for the next week, so others would not notice the bite mark, prosecutors said.
A forensic examiner who testified for prosecutors said the mark could be a result of a rape; a gynecologist who testified for the defense said it was negligible, and he didn't interpret it as a sign of a rape.
This Virginia case is representative of a system in which striking a plea deal with prosecutors, accepting the mark of a "felon" or "criminal," is pushed on the vast majority of offenders.
In one high-profile case, a man named Ray Krone was convicted of murder after prosecutors used bite marks on the victim's neck and breast to link Krone to the crime; he served 10 years in prison before DNA evidence showed that he was innocent. .
Mr. Motassadeq did this, wiring 5,000 German marks, and prosecutors charge that he knew that the money was used to finance Mr. Shehhi's flight training.
Prosecutors have invoked bite-mark matches to secure convictions in numerous cases, only to see these convictions overturned when DNA or other evidence has become available.
The translator, Ahmed F. Mehalba, 32, was arrested at Logan Airport in Boston in September 2003 on suspicion of espionage after federal investigators seized more than 100 compact discs that contained 725 government documents, about half of which were marked "secret," prosecutors said.
Egyptian prosecutors have said these marks signified a "slow death," though investigators initially said what happened was likely a road accident.
An out-of-the-way nook of the state court building, equipped with three small bedrooms marked "prosecutor", "defender" and "judge", serves as a nocturnal court.
