1.   And it is difficult, she said, for most defendants to sit quietly while prosecutors question their motives.

2.   In Manhattan, that usually means the pens, an open room in the Criminal Court building where defendants sit shoulder to shoulder in narrow cages along the walls.

3.   The defendants sat stiffly, staring straight ahead.

4.   The defendants will be sitting at the same table where they sat throughout the four-month trial, though in different seats.

5.   The other defendants sat quietly during the incident, with one, Ali Mohamed, a former sergeant in the U.S. Army, shaking his head and looking grim.

6.   Throughout the trial, as the prosecution has vilified them, the defendants have sat without expression.

7.   A hole had been cut in the floor of the high-security cage inside the courtroom where the defendants sat during their trial.

8.   A lawyer for the plaintiffs had taped a photograph of Karadzic to the chair where the defendant would ordinarily sit.

9.   Chu said he could not see Lam at first, because the defendant had been sitting behind a television monitor in the courtroom.