41.   Justice Stephen Breyer asked Larry L. Roberts, an assistant prosecutor from Detroit who was arguing for the state.

42.   Lawrence Bunting, the chief assistant prosecutor in Oakland County, said that he was also concerned about the appearance of preferential treatment given to Bobek.

43.   On Saturday, Bass appeared calm as the verdicts were read, then praised an assistant prosecutor for a good job and hummed as guards led her away.

44.   One justice on the state Supreme Court, for example, Francis Sweeney, was an assistant prosecutor at the time of the second trial.

45.   One Ohio Supreme Court justice who had been an assistant prosecutor in the second trial refused to recuse himself despite his obvious conflict of interest.

46.   Patrick Peters, a former assistant prosecutor who won the conviction at trial, said the capture ends the legend of a criminal who seemed to beat the system.

47.   Raised in Lakewood, N.J., the son of an obstetrician-gynecologist father and a mother who was an assistant prosecutor.

48.   She has also worked as an assistant prosecutor in Dallas and as state director for U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas.

49.   She has even overruled her first assistant prosecutor, Carmen Marino, who had said he was persuaded that Sheppard was innocent and that Eberling was probably the killer.

50.   That much is clear, said Steve Aaron, assistant county prosecutor.