The longer it takes to do an investigation, the longer it will take to secure verdicts or settlements that would include money for further antiforeclosure efforts.
Early in the personal reign of Louis XIV, in December 1662, he was put in charge of the trial of the finance minister, Nicolas Fouquet, who had been accused of embezzlement, and he conducted it brutally enough to secure a verdict against Fouquet.
By contrast, three votes in favour of acquittal on a 12-person civilian jury in England and Wales would have been enough to secure a verdict of not guilty, even though three-quarters of such a jury would have convicted the defendant.
He also accepted that citizens who have deployed reasonable force very rarely end up in court, and that when they do, they mostly secure fair verdicts.
Their relative success at doing that, securing a verdict of accidental death in March 1991, fuelled the families' continuing trauma, and their long campaign for justice.
And just in case this was not enough to secure favourable verdicts, the president, Robert Mugabe, appointed three extra judges to the Supreme Court.The law is his instrumentMr Mugabe has gone to great lengths to appear law-abiding, in his way.
Before the Rajaratnam and Gupta trials, Mr. Brodsky won two insider trading convictions: securing guilty verdicts against Hafiz Muhammad Zubair Naseem, a former Credit Suisse investment banker, and Joseph Contorinis, a former money manager at the Jefferies Group.
At a minimum, the failure to secure a civil verdict, or at least a mammoth settlement, would be another humiliation for regulators.
But my mental re-trial did make me realise how hard it must be, in many instances, to secure a guilty verdict for the crime of rape even after model investigations and with conscientious, unprejudiced juries.
This is the same Angela Corey whose office failed, not so long ago, to secure a guilty verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman for the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
