His detractors see his end as an encouraging if brutal sign that the days when the rich and powerful can ignore the law are closing.
They added they were closing a loophole in the law that appeared with the opening of private clinic Marie Stopes.
His most widely quoted passage is his facetious petition to the French parliament on behalf of the French candle makers seeking passage of a law requiring the closing of all blinds, shutters etc.
Those challenges were evident in 2007, when a gunman at Virginia Tech shot and killed 32, and Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine called for closing a loophole in the law allowing for private sales at gun shows without the same background check that licensed dealers are required to obtain.
Authorities say Mayes fatally shot himself as law enforcement officers were closing in on him.
There are some difficult issues ahead which are going to need more than Labour votes to become law - the new statutory process for closing and merging schools being just one example.
Wes Oliver, a professor at Widener Law school in Harrisburg, who listened to the closing statements in the courtroom, gave Mr. Amendola's speech higher marks.
Among Mr Berlusconi's first acts in government were closing the office of the high commissioner against corruption and passing a law that means he himself will not have to answer to bribery charges.
"A trial is like a jig-saw puzzle and closing argument is when the lawyers put the pieces together, " says Erwin Chemerinsky, a law school professor at the University of Southern California who has been following the case.
Megabanks Wells Fargo and Bank of America fired back by closing their ATMs to nondepositors in Santa Monica and threatening to do the same in San Francisco when its law takes effect in December--all of which made cardholders even angrier.
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