51.   The treason trial has been postponed several times because of prosecution requests for more time to gather evidence.

52.   The U.N. tribunal hearing crimes related to the Rwandan genocide Monday released Ntuyahaga after complying with a prosecution request to drop a charge of crimes against humanity against him.

53.   The U.N. tribunal has primacy over all national jurisdictions and the judges are expected to grant the prosecution request.

54.   With the prosecution request, the jury could face a much more complex set of decisions about the conduct of each officer.

55.   He denied a prosecution request to postpone the trial, however.

56.   A preliminary inquiries judge has still to rule whether to accede to the prosecution request.

57.   After the prosecution request, the high military court said it would rule in the case of Abdel Malek Abdel Menem Ali Hamed on Sunday, the sources said.

58.   An Italian court Tuesday turned down a prosecution request to delay the trial of the accused killers of anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone.

59.   But a prosecution request, based on fears that procedural mistakes could lead to the case later being thrown out on appeal, had threatened a new delay.

60.   But shortly after the trial opened, the judges postponed the session to consider a prosecution request to adjourn the case on procedural grounds.