On February 25, 2010, District Attorney Keating sent a letter to District Court Judge Mark Coven, to start a judicial inquest into the 1986 shooting.

When necessary, a Crown prosecutor will request an examining judge (juge d'instruction/onderzoeksrechter) be appointed to lead a judicial inquest.

A judicial inquest going on in the city of Port Elizabeth has been particularly suggestive.

Top police officials were accused in a recent judicial inquest of running guns to Inkatha-controlled migrant hostels.

Later, according to a judicial inquest, hard-liners in the South African police would stoke the rivalry by supplying weapons to the hostels and helping organize terror attacks.

Following his death, a second complaint from SLAJ resulted in a judicial inquest into the matter which found that Yansaneh died as a result of involuntary manslaughter.

But for at least a decade she has largely avoided that route, preferring instead to hand the cases off to Federal prosecutors, or to ask for a judicial inquest.

Ms. Reno has explained her reliance on judicial inquests by pointing out that they are open to the public and the press, unlike grand jury proceedings.

In each case, there has been a brief flurry of negative publicity, complaints by citizens' groups and calls for Ms. Reno to abandon her dependence on judicial inquests.