Although Mr. Hynes has been criticized for weak prosecution of sexual abuse in the Orthodox Jewish community, Mr. Thompson endured his own share of criticism recently from David Greenfield, an Orthodox councilman, who accused Mr. Thompson of planning to "target" Jews.
Leaving court he hit out at the authorities for not stopping "the train" of a very weak prosecution and said he hoped to fall in love again after losing the Back to Black singer in July last year.
Benjamin Brafman, a defense lawyer in New York, said that the rule is "if your rebuttal evidence is not really strong, there's no point in putting it forward because then the case will end on weak prosecution evidence".
Monday's report from the State Department seemed to acknowledge the weak prosecution record.
But enforcement is usually weak and prosecutions are rare.
There should be a reverse-onus system where unaccounted, suspicious funds re seized pending a reasonable explanation?" The result is there are few prosecutions, weak sentences, and few confiscations, said FATF.
Lord Brittan died some months after lawyers had concluded the case was too weak to warrant prosecution, but failed to inform the cancer-stricken peer.
Since March, when the general returned to Chile after the British released him on humanitarian grounds, he has been too weak to block the prosecutions of fellow officers.
Despite the prosecution's weak case, many Egyptians do see Al Jazeera as having worked to undermine their country.
