1.   New York magazine had a higher purpose in mind when it used an empty courtroom recently to stage a mock trial of O.J. Simpson.

2.   Roe was there and so was Wade, facing each other across a nearly empty courtroom and the chasm of a generation.

3.   The judge in the case, David G. Trager of Federal District Court, imposed that sentence in a mostly empty courtroom on Friday.

4.   Then she disappeared into chambers, leaving two U.S. marshals guarding the door of her empty courtroom.

5.   Two Bexar County court bailiffs accused of sneaking a female prisoner into empty courtroom holding cells for sex have been fired.

6.   But Judge Joaquim Cangato ordered it closed before the first session, saying a photographer had breached rules by taking pictures of the empty courtroom before the hearing.

7.   Jurors filing into a civil trial in Olympia, Washington, found an empty courtroom and a usually loquacious judge struggling for words.

8.   None of the men yelled or showed any anger in a courtroom mostly empty except for red-bereted guards.

9.   The suspects met Callow for the first time on Saturday, and were allowed two hours with him in an empty courtroom before the court session.