But the court is designed to deal with the most serious international crimes, and will try people only if they are not prosecuted at home.

The government could pick up anyone they wanted and prosecute at their leisure, if we made them a present of all those names.

"As crime goes down on the street, it gives us more resources to prosecute people at the upper end," he said.

He pointed out that before 1984, no one had ever prosecuted a steroid case at any level of government.

"There is merit to not prosecuting at the time," she said.

It would get its authority to prosecute the cases at the discretion of the police commissioner.

And, acting on instructions from above, they did not intend to prosecute their search for him just at the moment.

As with every American trial, this one was prosecuted under the laws in effect at the time of the crime in 1961.

Nor would the case have been prosecuted "if any other medical procedure" had been at issue, she added.

He has not been indicted, but the local authorities frequently remind him that they can prosecute at any time.