ABSTRACT
The process of detection, investigation, prosecution and/or neutralization of a terrorist threat usually concludes in court, or at least, this is the line of events generally preferred by the authorities. After all, counterterrorism policy practiced by the police and judiciary is validated and substantiated when terrorist crimes are solved, the perpetrators are unequivocally identified and the court has convicted them as terrorist offenders. Until their conviction, the courtroom serves as a stage on which terrorists and their public prosecutors find themselves in the limelight, attempting to justify themselves.
