The special prosecutor decided to continue the case because the evidence in the Crime Suppression Division’s secret investigation files could not be accepted. According to Ministry of Interior document number 31/9 dated 28 October 1954 criminal cases could not be stopped once initiated and the police had no power to investigate cases while they were being tried. Since the court could not accept the Crime Suppression Division’s report, it technically had no evidence that the four men accused were in fact the wrong men. Therefore, the trial would not be stopped. The information contained in the Crime Suppression Division’s letter thus remained as marked – ‘secret.’