Aggressive prosecutions would send a strong message that the government is serious about product safety.
The Indian government has demanded that Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders be extradited, while Pakistan has insisted any prosecutions would take place on its soil.
Such prosecutions would risk becoming a big distraction from Mr Obama's attempts to focus energy on reform of health-care provision and other domestic policy.
In a statement, Ray's office said that no substantial and credible exists to implicate any other senior White House official in the FBI background files controversy that came to be known as "Filegate, " and that no prosecutions would be pursued.
If red tape and government meddling derails the promising reforms to criminal prosecutions, it would, sadly, not be new or surprising.
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There's been no creation of a deterrent through prosecutions so they would at least have that in the backs of their minds.
Mr Holder said that a special prosecutor, John Durham, who has also been investigating the destruction of interrogation tapes by the CIA, will now consider whether prosecutions of interrogators would be appropriate.
In the annals of unwarranted federal criminal prosecutions, it would be tough to find a more outrageous case than that of Idaho farmer Cory King, who stands convicted of felony violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
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After separate investigations into the deaths, Hampshire Police and the Health and Safety Executive both said they would not launch prosecutions in connection with the tragedy.
As a result, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced it would withdraw speeding prosecutions, allowing those who had been caught in the area between May 2003 and August 2004 to apply to have fines and penalty points reviewed.
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Mr Starmer said then that he would publish an interim policy on when prosecutions could occur by September before putting the issue out to public consultation and that permanent policy would be published next spring.
Mr Lagos's options are to insist on digging up the truth about the dictatorship and on bringing the guilty to trial which would distract the government from other priorities or to sponsor a national agreement to stop prosecutions concerning the atrocities of the Pinochet era, which would offend its left-wing supporters.
But after successive investigations ended without prosecutions, many believed the case would be dropped.
Unlawful killing was a verdict that required a high standard of proof, Mr Knowles added, and inquest verdicts would not automatically lead to prosecutions.
In December, Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer said no new charges would be brought in the case, owing to a lack of admissible evidence.
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The failure of the three pathologists to all agree on the cause of Mr Tomlinson's death led to the director of public prosecutions ruling that the policeman in question would not face any charges.
The court also ruled it would be unconstitutional for the DPP to issue guidelines on prosecutions for assisted suicide, but the court "felt sure" the director "in this of all cases" would exercise her discretion in a humane and sensitive fashion.
He said anyone blocking the roads was committing an offence and that there would be "many more retrospective prosecutions".
It would be better to make such prosecutions less arbitrary by giving them to the international criminal court whose creation America opposes.
Even if deans and faculty could overcome their propensity to conduct due-process deficient investigations and prosecutions of sexual assault and rape, universities would still confront Office for Civil Rights-imposed requirements that direct them, after police investigations, to proceed with their own.
However, Keir Starmer, director of public prosecutions, said in his view that the bill would achieve its objectives.
Despite the court's repeated assurances, American congressmen and officials feared that the world's sole superpower would become the target of politically-motivated prosecutions.
But they agreed the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in this of all cases, would exercise discretion in a humane and sensitive fashion as to whether to prosecute or not.
Would a more vigorous regime of finance-related prosecutions have made much difference in preventing the financial crisis?
Ms Brown said she would not "rule out or in" any prosecutions until all the investigations had been completed, insisting "everything is still very much on the table".
Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, and the Criminal Bar Association believe that relaxing the ban would be good in principle.
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Shadow Home Office minister Diana Johnson said it was "generally accepted that allowing intercept evidence would have a significant impact on some trials, facilitating some prosecutions and making others more likely".
Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer has also backed a change, on the grounds that it would allow the public to "see justice".
For their part, the Palestinians, under European prodding, would agree not to use their new-won statehood to launch prosecutions against Israelis at the International Criminal Court.
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