By: Brendan Kearney

Before the pretrial motions hearing began Thursday in the City Hall corruption probe cases, State Prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh joked with the assembled press corps about the defendants’ horde of attorneys and his office’s meager resources.

“Look at how many lawyers they have,” he said. “This is our entire office.” (The entire legal staff anyway; the office’s investigators were not present.)

Dixon’s defense lawyer, Arnold M. Weiner, saw the situation differently.

“It’s hard to feel sympathy for a prosecutor who conducts a multi-year investigation with a full staff of investigators and assistants and who comes into court with four of them and then complains he doesn’t have the resources to do the case that he’s brought,” Weiner said.

So, where do your sympathies lie?