Judges in China are in a more privileged position: there, there are no rules of evidence and courts may hear whatever the prosecution wants to tell them.
And whatever the prosecution's plans to show a man dead-set on all-consuming greed, to effectively trap him into giving information about his old boss who's now the leader of the free world one question remains: Is any of Manafort's wardrobe fashionable?
These politicians should be charged, whatever the crown prosecution service's views on the likelihood of conviction.
The defense asked for six weeks to review whatever evidence the prosecution turns over before deciding what motions it will file on Mr. Strauss-Kahn's behalf.
With that in mind, here is McCreath's statement in full: Occasionally - very rarely - circumstances may arise in which a court has to say that whatever apparent merits a prosecution may have, the court cannot allow the prosecution case to be taken forward to trial.
Whatever the difficulties of prosecution, the attempt must be made.
In other words: "I yield power to you, you guarantee to spare me and my family from prosecution".Whatever it might privately think, no western government could sanction an immunity deal for Mr Milosevic without severely undermining the credibility of the war-crimes tribunal.
Of course, one way of avoiding much of the difficulty, expense, and inefficiency of a system of prepublication censorship is simply to allow editors to publish as they choose, subject to the risk of prosecution for whatever is published contrary to the standards laid down by the regime.
Whatever else happens, Morsi's prosecution is unlikely to be speedy.
Whatever outsiders might think, the prosecution service decided, Scientology was motivated by "religious conviction" and not "personal gain".
