The bill would provide no new Federal judges, prosecutors or courtrooms.

In addition, secret documents from another major Mexican drug investigation contradict some of the evidence Mexico provided American prosecutors to support the extradition.

As such, they provide prosecutors with the next best chance of obtaining a verdict on the events in Kosovo, a Serbian province.

He has yet to provide prosecutors with their names.

Indeed, they said, the Andersen conviction provides prosecutors with critical momentum as they turn their attention to other potential defendants in the Enron debacle.

It often results in agreements in the form of immunity pledges or plea deals that can provide prosecutors with additional evidence to use against other suspects.

Mr. Houldsworth, who will be sentenced in December, stands to receive a lighter sentence if he can provide prosecutors with such information.

Thus, recurring constitutional violations are not the "obvious consequence" of failing to provide prosecutors with formal in-house training.

The organization was supposed to be an information-gathering and -dispensing operation, providing prosecutors with information, letting newspapers get stories to embarrass corrupt officials.

Lawyers often provide prosecutors with legal assistance to make such prosecutions stick.