51.   No matter which agency takes over the review, the legal standards are the same.

52.   Officials said the case illustrates the difficulties of adhering to U.S. legal standards in markets like Russia, where the full rule of law has yet to be established.

53.   Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating said Friday he supports a higher legal standard in death penalty cases that would absolutely guarantee that no innocent person is put to death.

54.   Now, he said, it has to move again, to a standard of greater financial disclosure and adherence to international legal standards.

55.   Pagan also said that prosecutors had originally intended to charge Ms. Bayless in state court but moved it to federal court, where the legal standard is lower.

56.   Prominent critics such as Louis Henkin of Columbia Law School have charged that they carry less weight than legal standards and lack bite.

57.   Prosecutors suggested that they had no proof that the rest of the slush fund, while questionable, met the legal standard of bribery.

58.   Proponents indicated they would argue that Henderson abused his discretion by using the wrong legal standard and by deciding that women and minorities would suffer irreparable injury while Prop.

59.   Sentencing, the Justice Department said, is a different procedure, with a different legal standard of proof, than a criminal trial.