"Courts have to work, prosecution has to work [and] people have to have a zero tolerance to rape".
With doubts shadowing the quality and scope of the police work, the prosecution and the defense will be left to tackle critical questions even as they debate the evidence.
The groups would be called up to supplement the military, or to do some of the dirtier work, the prosecution said, like attacking villagers, burning down homes and going after the elderly, women and children, which the military would be more reluctant to do.
"If we believe they were actually intended as threats we will work toward prosecution".
Shoddy police work, the prosecution's failure to pursue another suspect, and a weak defense combined to send DeLuna to death row, they argued.
After this, Wang had a meteoric rise in the government, including distinguished service in offices overseeing public works, criminal prosecution, and the examination system.
She added: "At this time of ongoing high-profile trials, political interference undermining work to improve prosecutions of sexual offences should desist".
And the D.E.A. had so few agents of color who spoke African languages that it was forced to rely on informants, who were paid only if their work resulted in prosecutions.
In contrast to the views of many academic researchers and civil liberties groups, Mr. Breinholt says the decisions show that terrorism prosecutions work and that American Muslims are prickly, litigious and poorly integrated into American society.
"It became obvious to us as we reviewed the evidence that, in many cases, we had simply gotten the slowest guys on the battlefield," said Lt. Col. Thomas S. Berg, a member of the original military legal team set up to work on the prosecutions.
