Not only would the Defense Department be writing the rules and running the prosecutions; it was vetting the defense attorneys.
He sees a common thread running through prosecutions of activists for DDoS attacks and those of Swatrz, Auernheimer and Barrett Brown, a former affiliate of hacktivist collective Anonymous currently in prison facing charges under the CFAA, whose prosecution has also attracted criticism.
Holder himself did not run that prosecution, and cannot be blamed directly for it.
"Federal funding made it more attractive to run marijuana prosecutions in one place and not the other".
The relatively light sentence ended a long-running prosecution that forced Mr. Olmert from office.
"Did you see the number of sheriffs carting her in and out on a misdemeanor case?" Mark Geragos, a lawyer whose clients have included Mr. Jackson and Gary Condit, said of Ms. Lohan and her appearance this week in a long-running prosecution that began when she was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and cocaine in 2007.
After a long-running prosecution, the imprisonments have sent shock waves across the political and legal systems of a nation where widespread political corruption has long been a given but where dangerous prisons are usually reserved for the poor.
His mother says there was a medical specialist set to tell the jury about his blindness: "But the judge said the trial was running behind, and the prosecution and defence agreed the expert's evidence would be read out".
In February an appeals court ruled that the six-year statute of limitations for prosecution starts running only with the last act of evasion, and each year you fail to report an offshore account of more than $10,000 on your 1040 counts as another, later act.
Robert Short, prosecuting, said prosecution costs were running at about £14,000.
But Giuliani's prosecution ran into problems almost immediately.
