21.   But in a pretrial hearing, Texas Ranger Robert Garza challenged the confession.

22.   But in the past six months, both sides have been busy shaping their cases, promoting their positions and fighting minor skirmishes in pretrial hearings.

23.   But she made an exception in the Scott case, authorizing the surreptitious taping of his conversations and presiding over grand jury and pretrial hearings.

24.   But Shapiro and co-counsel Johnnie Cochran added that they would prefer to remove the camera during certain pretrial hearings from which prejudicial information might leak out to jurors.

25.   But the lawyers appeared to get along amiably Tuesday during lunch shortly after a pretrial hearing.

26.   But the trial of Flemmi and other defendants has been hung up by pretrial hearings largely focused on the questionable ties between FBI agents and their informants.

27.   Cisneros did not attend the pretrial hearing.

28.   Cochise County prosecutors have offered Knowles a manslaughter plea, which he could accept as early as today at a pretrial hearing.

29.   Dillon entered a plea of not guilty to the charges and faces a pretrial hearing in Seattle Municipal Court on Monday.

30.   During lengthy pretrial hearings, former FBI agents revealed a cozy relationship between some FBI agents and Bulger and Flemmi.