Meissner called the new policy an "overreaction," and said the administration is using a blunt-force prosecution approach to address complicated problems in the asylum system.
Mr. Christie also brushed aside charges that he had used a deferred prosecution agreement involving the pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb to pressure the company into endowing an ethics chair at his alma mater, Seton Hall University School of Law.
Berlin was traditionally a left-wing city and the Eden Dance Palace victims' advocate, Hans Litten, believed he could use a criminal prosecution to end the rise of the Nazi party by exposing the ultimate source of Storm 33's violent actions.
During the trial, the letter was used as a prosecution exhibit.
This includes communications between someone under indictment and his or her lawyer — the words can't be used in a prosecution, but can be to gather intelligence.
He would apprise Mr. Ahmed of his Miranda rights — including the right to remain silent and to have counsel — and then interview him, in hopes of winning a confession that could be used in a prosecution in civilian court.
But instead, they said, at a debriefing by prosecutors last Oct. 22, Ms. Chavez, a Honduran in her late 20's, provided so much false information that they decided she could not be used as a prosecution witness.
At the same time, Yates and other law enforcement officials knew there was little chance of bringing against Flynn a case related to the Logan Act, a statute that has never been used in a prosecution.
But the statute has not been used in a prosecution in modern history, and it would not be uncommon for incoming administrations to interface with foreign governments with whom they will soon have to work.
But that accommodation leaves the Government's capacity to utilize self-reporting schemes practically impaired by the necessary presumption that evidence used in a prosecution after the individual discloses his relationship to the regulated transaction would not have been available if the individual had not complied with the statute.
