The General Prosecutor heads a group of independent prosecutors, called Procuradores da República, who work to investigate and prosecute criminal, labor and civil offenses committed against society.

Defense attorneys called no witnesses while prosecutors called more than a dozen.

Only then was a prosecutor called to videotape him.

The man everyone but prosecutors called Abbie was that most American character, the self-creating confidence man.

The prosecutors called only one witness who claimed to have seen the shooting directly, a former crack addict.

Robert Kempner, who was a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, called those proceedings "the greatest history seminar ever held."

The prosecutor called on the judge to impose a two-year sentence, saying it was the maximum allowed by law in the case.

The motion was based on the recantation - which a prosecutor called "questionable" -of a former mob hit man who now says he lied in previous testimony.

So began the investigation into what the chief prosecutor, Leroy K. New, called "the most terrible crime ever committed in the state of Indiana."

But prosecutors called soldiers who testified that Specialist Graner had laughed and joked as detainees moaned, screamed and begged him to stop beating them.