Shelly Yacimovich, a legislator from the Labor Party, a major partner in the governing coalition, said the scope of charges against the prime minister was unprecedented in Israel.
The suit filed that year was one of the government's largest in the scope of charges and the resources devoted to it, accusing cigarette makers of decades of fraud, deceptive advertising and dangerous marketing.
Elizabeth M. Fink, Ms. Siddiqui's lawyer, said of the narrow scope of the charges, "They kept it very tight".
The latest delay in his case comes after a decision by prosecutors to simplify it by limiting the scope of the charges.
He insists he is innocent, but the scope of the charges has shocked Chicago.The indictment also marks the rise of another clan: the Fitzgeralds.
Today, Judge May warned prosecutors that despite the broader scope of the charges against Mr. Milosevic, he wanted the trial to start soon and that the prosecutors could not continue their investigations indefinitely.
Judge I. Leo Glasser, who is overseeing the case, reduced the number of defendants, limited the number and scope of the charges and, last week, barred the testimony of certain key plaintiff's witnesses.
The nearly four-year-long trial has been held back by the scope of the charges, relating to three wars spanning a decade, and by the recurring ill health of Mr. Milosevic, 64, the former Yugoslav president, who acts as his own lawyer.
His case suffered not only from the scope of the charges, encompassing three wars, but also from the poor health of Mr. Milosevic, which led to frequent breaks in the trial and a part-time schedule of just three half days per week.
Mr Chirac insisted that nobody who called himself a European could vote No.The European Court of Justice surprisingly upheld an Italian law that softened the penalties and scope for charges of false accounting.
In the Welsh government's proposals for the environment bill, ministers float the idea of extending the charge to cover bags-for-life, which are outside the scope of the charge.
