41.   The defense request to suppress evidence is the latest legal twist in the case.

42.   The defense request for all police reports of unsolved murders in California in the past year was deemed overly broad.

43.   The judge granted a defense request to excuse two potential jurors who said they would automatically vote for the death penalty if Davis was convicted.

44.   The judge, Carol Kelly of Cook County Juvenile Court, rejected the defense request in her decision.

45.   The hearing focused on defense requests for classified documents and other government information.

46.   The judge rejected the defense request to set aside the verdict.

47.   There was no immediate response from Marcia Clark, the chief prosecutor in the case, who could oppose the defense request.

48.   There was no word as to whether the judge would also comply with a defense request that he look into alleged prosecutorial misconduct.

49.   Throughout an afternoon hearing, an assistant U.S. attorney, David McGee, ridiculed the defense request to gather evidence as a fishing expedition.

50.   U.S. Magistrate Ronald Howland also declined to rule on a defense request that the case be moved out of Oklahoma.