1.   Dozens of spectators clustered in the Montpelier courthouse lobby, in what local officials said was the biggest hubbub at the court in recent memory.

2.   On the sidewalks and in the courthouse lobby, more than a dozen people proclaimed their support for Nesler.

3.   Tracy Grady of Scottsdale, sitting among a crowd of prospective jurors in a courthouse lobby, said she always thought there were fines or some other punishment.

4.   In the courthouse lobby, hundreds of people vied for the few precious public seats in the courtroom.

5.   Riot police wearing helmets moved in, pushing the protesters into the courthouse lobby and finally expelling them from the building with tear gas.

6.   She was visibly upset when Kunstler tried to comfort her afterward in the federal courthouse lobby.

7.   In the courthouse lobby, hundreds of people jockeyed for the seven public seats in the courtroom decided by lottery and cheers went up as the winners were announced.