1.   Although witnesses are usually banned from trials and pretrial hearings until they testify, prosecutors had asked for an exception for the victims.

2.   And in papers filed Tuesday, federal prosecutors asked Baer in unusually critical language to reverse his decision.

3.   And when prosecutors asked Zobel to permit the jury to consider manslaughter, as an option, he refused.

4.   Asked by prosecutors whether she had told her story to anyone else, the woman, Jill Shively, mentioned only her mother.

5.   Asked by prosecutor Joe Owmby about his views on the death penalty, the juror said it was a necessary punishment.

6.   Asked by prosecutors to describe the customer, whom he saw for three to five minutes, Showalter gave a description that could fit Nichols.

7.   At that point, prosecutors could ask a judge to grant her limited immunity.

8.   At one point the prosecutor asked Baden how many murders of the sort he was describing he had actually witnessed.

9.   At that point the prosecutors asked Blumenthal to leave the room so they could consult.

10.   At the hearing, federal prosecutors asked U.S. District Court Judge Charles Richey to order the defense to declare immediately whether Duran will assert an insanity defense.