21.   Proceedings were to have begun Monday, but the trial has been postponed to allow further investigation.

22.   Smith ruled Wednesday that the trial will be postponed to accommodate the transfer of evidence from governmental entities to the clerk of his court.

23.   So Judge Frank Lanier postponed the trial almost seven weeks.

24.   That led to defense requests, which Nickerson granted twice, to postpone the trial.

25.   The court had postponed the trial after five days of testimony to permit the two sides to complete their settlement negotiations.

26.   The judge also said that severing the cases of Elgabrowny and Siddig Ali would in effect postpone their trials until the trial of the other defendants was over.

27.   The lawyers had sought to have the trial postponed until next year.

28.   The prosecution, he said, had postponed the trial on many occasions because the complaining witness had never shown up.

29.   A judge refused prosecution requests Friday to gag the news media and postpone the trial of a wealthy white American couple charged with killing a black Caribbean boatman.

30.   A Chinese court on Tuesday mysteriously postponed the trial of two labor activists for the second day running, a human rights group said.