1.   A judge this week is to rule on a defense request to reduce or overturn her second-degree murder conviction.

2.   The judge has dismissed at least a half-dozen defense requests for a mistrial since jury selection began last September.

3.   Although the federal government opposed the defense request for separate trials, Hartzler agreed with the judge that two trials would not take significantly more time than one.

4.   And federal prosecutors have refused a defense request to immunize Connolly, saying they first want to hear whether Flemmi implicates Connolly in any wrongdoing.

5.   Borenstein will also hear a defense request for a new trial on the ground that the Amiraults were not adequately represented during their trial.

6.   But the office of the Virginia attorney general filed a motion opposing the defense request.

7.   But the prosecutors may be more amenable to a defense request to move the trial out of Oklahoma City because of adverse publicity and outrage over the bombing.

8.   But the prosecutors signaled they would not contest the defense request to subpoena the CIA agent for trial testimony.

9.   Despite that finding, Garrett denied a defense request to move the trial to a more neutral venue.

10.   Easton denied a defense request that the boy be released to his mother.