But Cathy Fleming, the lawyer for Mr. Gibson, charged that prosecutors were making much of little.
United States prosecutors were making arrangements for their return to San Diego to face smuggling charges.
In Salt Lake City yesterday, United States District Judge David Sam questioned why federal prosecutors were making a federal case of the Olympic bribery scandal.
Sarah Forte, one of the students who investigated Mr. McKinney's case and who graduated in 2006, said she was frustrated that prosecutors were making the requests, even as Mr. McKinney, 49, remained in a prison in downstate Dixon.
The episode sheds light on the case that government prosecutors were making, painting Ms. Mairone — unfairly, her lawyers say — as a near-frantic mortgage executive trying to get the last loans out the door before the market closed down for good.
In a hearing last week, the judge questioned why federal prosecutors were making the Olympic bribery scandal a federal case, observing that they had brought felony charges based on a Utah law that makes it a misdemeanor to offer or take bribes or kickbacks in business affairs.
But the appointment of public prosecutors is made by the government.
The CPS's new rape toolkit might make welcome headlines, but I won't be celebrating until police officers and prosecutors are made to put existing policies and guidelines in practice or face appropriate sanction for failing to do so.
Mr Estrada, too, managed to evade impeachment while in office, and prosecutors are making heavy weather of their current case against him.
Some changes prosecutors are making have not been directly aimed at immigrant offenders, but benefit them nonetheless.
