21.   In the packed courtroom today, McVeigh avoided looking directly at Mrs. Nichols.

22.   On Monday, before a packed courtroom, Ms. Heard calmly testified that she and Reynolds had indeed had sex, often in his campaign office.

23.   Some spectators in the packed courtroom laughed, and others gasped.

24.   The case, watched by the world, was argued before a packed courtroom inside the Elbert Parr Tuttle Courthouse on Forsyth Street in downtown Atlanta.

25.   The circuslike atmosphere and proceedings in a packed courtroom vividly illustrated the obstacles investigators face in looking into potentially deadly terrorist incidents.

26.   The judge read it before a packed courtroom, quickly silencing a brief outburst of applause.

27.   The lawyers made their comments before a packed courtroom.

28.   The packed courtroom had scarcely absorbed this appeal, when it was the turn of Henderson, who hoped to earn a slim chance of one day winning parole.

29.   The three-hour session in a packed federal courtroom had strains of eloquent anger, muted contrition and sobs of shame.

30.   The verdicts were read in front of a packed courtroom that included the families of the two victims, and a worldwide television audience.