controversial. people haven't always supported his decisions, but experience matters. fortunately, new york voters have lots of good choices in this regard. crystal balling the timeline is tough to do because my expectation is that even the prosecutors themselves don't know exactly when the case will be ready. often and particularly in something complicated when you're trying to flip witnesses, you just can't tell and you have to let the investigation come to the point where you're ready to make the decision whether to prosecute or let the matter go because you lack evidence. you know it when you get there. but really you don't know it this far out. the job of the investigation is to establish these basic questions. who, what, when, where, why. the investigators have lots of documents. they have the tax documents that vance fought so hard for in court, so they likely know everything except for the who at this point. they know what happened.