Two brothers were cleared of his attempted murder last year, after Masciopinto refused to give evidence and the judge ruled they had no case to answer.
These are not questions that economists or anyone else can give a sensible answer to - not least, because no-one can say with any confidence what the terms of Britain's NON-membership of the EU would be.
I'm no constitutional expert, so someone else would have to give you the good answer on whether there is a legitimate constitutional basis for the action.
But no matter what question I asked them about their way of thinking they always seemed to give an answer in terms of the intelligence, resume, or academic qualifications of their analysts.