Apparently that was not the answer the prosecutor had hoped for.

The most a prosecutor can hope to do, he said, is press the occasional case as a warning to others.

Still, if the prosecutors had hoped to keep politics out of the case, they were quickly disappointed.

Now prosecutors have him in court again and hope to cripple his operation.

Prosecutors hope to prove the attack was motivated by such a bias.

But his appointment suggested that prosecutors may hope to accomplish more than simply writing a final report and closing down.

Prosecutors said they would present evidence against him to a grand jury this week and hoped for an indictment by the weekend.

If the trial had taken place last October, as prosecutors had hoped, the political effects might have been different.

Prosecutors had hoped to announce some prominent convictions earlier this summer.

Prosecutors hope to introduce testimony that he was occasionally seen in front of Jessica's school, among other details.