31.   On Friday, Burrell rejected a defense request to bar the possibility of the death penalty.

32.   On Monday, Johnson County District Judge John Anderson III denied a defense request to prevent jurors from seeing photographs of Trouten, Lewicka and Stasi before their deaths.

33.   Paez accepted a defense request to place the plea agreement under seal, a move Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Spivack said is common among defendants cooperating with prosecutors.

34.   Prosecutors and defense attorneys also were prepared to argue a defense request to try her separately for the poisoning and arson allegations.

35.   Prosecutors filed, under seal, their opposition to the defense request that the case be thrown out for lack of evidence.

36.   Prosecutors were ordered Thursday to respond to defense requests for details of any possible foreign involvement in the bombing of the federal building last year in Oklahoma City.

37.   Sand agreed to a defense request to let the defendants call their families three times a month each, instead of once a month.

38.   She refused a defense request that he be kept in New York for another day to meet with a lawyer flying in from France.

39.   Teresi also acceded to a defense request to explain state law on the authority police officers have to approach citizens and request information.

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