Yuan Yulai, a lawyer in Zhejiang Province, wrote on his microblog that Ms. Yao "went beyond the scope of public prosecution in wantonly vilifying Li Zhuang" with "false accusations".
But Judge H. L. Kirkpatrick upheld the scope of the prosecution's case as jury selection opened in what the judge described as "an out-of-the-ordinary trial" expected to last four weeks.
The former proprietor of The Daily Telegraph was freed last year after successfully persuading the US Supreme Court to limit the scope of potential prosecution arguments in fraud cases, after which two of his four convictions were quashed.
The Brooklyn district attorney's office is traditionally a different beast from its Manhattan counterpart, however, and Mr. Hynes's influence was seen in expanding its social-welfare arm rather than enlarging the scope of its prosecutions as Mr. Morgenthau had done.
The decision in McDonnell v. U.S., penned by Chief Justice John Roberts and based on the court's 2010 Citizens United ruling, limited the scope of corruption prosecutions to include only formal government actions taken in exchange for gifts, contributions or bribes. .
As an indicator of the scope of the problem of rape prosecution, the "Nirbhaya" case was the only conviction obtained among the 706 rape cases filed in New Delhi in 2012.
Alison Levitt, chief legal adviser at the Crown Prosecution Service, traced the scope of what lies ahead with a broad account on Tuesday of the number of confirmed victims of the phone hacking — more than 600, by the prosecutors' count.
Mr. Hun Sen and several senior members of his government were Khmer Rouge cadres, but experts say they do not fall under the scope of the tribunal and are not at risk of prosecution.
Despite the prosecution's success in limiting the scope of Dr. Fyfe's testimony, the former police lieutenant, managed to convey his opinion that the officers had followed police procedure and had adhered to their primary mission: "To protect life".
The trial is the centerpiece of a tribunal in which the number of prosecutions is in any case symbolic, given the scope of the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge.
