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district attorney in washington, d.c., where she specialized in prosecuting sex crimes and domestic violence. she's now a novelist. and christopher kutz is a professor of law at the university of california at berkeley, where he studies criminalother areas. he spent much of the past year as a visiting professor in france. professor kutz, were you surprised with this case that began with such an outburst of publicity in the arrest of a powerful man ended this way, without a trial? >> i think everybody was shocked by this case. i remember the thunderclap of the announcement early in the morning in france in may when he was arrested. this was the man who was likely to be the next president and s.u.d. therein political system was upended, followed by the next great shock at the end of june when the d.a. announced the case was essentially collapsing. i think from the end of june to now has been pretty predictable but it's certainly... it certainly is a shock given the certainty with which the d.a. announced the charges against mr. strauss-kahn back in may. >> suarez: allison liotta, is it unusual for a case to get to this point and then simply not proceed? >> it is somewhat unusual. in the ideal world, you want to know everything