 The legal victory for the Tinti office of the Director of Public Prosecutions set an important precedent as it helped define the parameters for pursuing civil lawsuits challenging ongoing criminal prosecutions. The outcome means that the DPP Roger Gaspard must now decide whether two of the three men should be rearrested and tried for the crime as one had died while the case was still pending. This state's main witness against the trio claimed to have witnessed the murders and implicated them.