1.   The two other defendants were former Cabinet ministers Dimitris Tsvolas and Georgios Petsos.

2.   Another defense lawyer, James LaRossa, said plea deals for the other seven defendants had collapsed.

3.   According to Whittington, the two other defendants, Preservation Products and the Brownsville Public Utility Board, also agreed to settle.

4.   After the bail hearing, Paciello was taken to a separate courtroom where he joined the eight other defendants named in the racketeering indictment.

5.   But lawyers for the two other defendants said they would appeal the verdicts.

6.   But Pataki and Vacco would probably prevail on the question of whether Vacco could keep the other two defendants, he said.

7.   Davis and the two other defendants are charged under federal law with a conspiracy to violate the civil rights of Groves that resulted in her murder.

8.   Griffin waited patiently in the jury box with the three other defendants and four lawyers.

9.   If the jury finds Vojtecky and Futrell liable, the case would shift focus to the only other individual defendant, former police Chief Gates, according to Gage.

10.   Investigators think Musso was killed the night before in the home of the four other defendants, an apartment in southwest Houston.