31.   The defendant had been charged with stabbing a man to death in a late-night street fight.

32.   The defendants were charged with conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury.

33.   The defendants are also charged with multiple counts of mail fraud.

34.   The defendants are charged not with murder but with genocide.

35.   The defendants are charged with grand larceny, conspiracy and fraud, among other charges.

36.   The defendants were charged Wednesday afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge John Primomo.

37.   The defense has argued that the Amharic code must govern and so the defendants cannot be charged with genocide because the killings were aimed at political opponents.

38.   The flood of arraignments, in which defendants are formally charged before a judge, leaves the courts in a continual struggle to keep from being overwhelmed.

39.   The indictment charges the defendants under federal racketeering laws that could put them in prison for life, prosecutors said.

40.   The indictment also charged the defendants with manipulating and inflating the prices of at least eight other stocks.