Mr. Bamberski is soon to be tried in connection with the kidnapping.
Seven other people are to be tried in connection with the case next year.
The next year, four L.A. officers were tried in connection with the incident.
De Santis was tried in connection with the incident, but the charges were timed out by a statute of limitations.
Petitioner, however, had already been tried in connection with that incident and had been acquitted of burglary, attempted robbery, assault, and weapons offenses.
Only one person has been tried in connection with the arson attack, and he received a sentence for time served, leading to his immediate release.
The videotaped statements were the primary evidence against the teenagers in 1990, when they were tried in connection with the rape and the other assaults.
Also tried in connection with the fire were Ernst Torgler, the chairman of the German Communist Party in the Reichstag, and three Bulgarian communists Simon Popov, Vassili Tanev, and Georgi Dimitrov.
This was done because the tremendous number of people to be tried in connection with the genocide resulted in a massive backlog of cases and an inability to proceed in a timely manner.
Prosecutors with the New York Police Department recommended on Wednesday that one of the two officers being tried in connection with the killing of Sean Bell five years ago should be allowed to stay on the force while the other should be fired.
The defense team of Ammar al-Baluchi, one of the detainees at Guantánamo who is being tried in connection with the 9/11 attacks, filed a motion in May asking the military commission to allow him to meet with Mr. Méndez.
