Peter Fleming, who chairs the Local Government Association's improvement board, said the system was used "as part of a wider range of methods to identify cases which may need closer scrutiny" and would not be used as the sole basis for prosecution.
Mahmood, he told the jury, was key to the case as the "sole progenitor" of the prosecution as well as the only investigator and prosecution witness.
The reporter, he added, was the "sole progenitor" of the prosecution as well as being the only investigator and prosecution witness.
"The lack of jurisdiction is the sole, insurmountable impediment to prosecution of the case in New York County".
MUMBAI, India — The prosecution of the sole surviving gunman of the November attacks here got off to a rocky start on Wednesday when a judge dismissed the state-appointed defense lawyer for having a conflict of interest.
"My sole motivation for pushing the prosecution was a firmly held belief, supported by overwhelming evidence and the law, that former Governor Siegelman had broken the law and traded his public office for personal and political favors," Louis V. Franklin Sr., the acting United States attorney in Montgomery, said in one statement.
More troubling is a misguided November 2013 ruling from a federal judge in Massachusetts, which held that NCMEC is a government agent because its examination of a file provided by a service provider "was a search conducted for the sole purpose of assisting the prosecution of child pornography crimes".
In the King case, as political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson has pointed out on the Huffington Post, "There would have been absolutely no chance to bring, let alone get, convictions of the officers if there had been even the remotest public hint that race was the sole reason for the federal prosecution.
Only criminal prosecutions would work.
