1.   After refusing to stop a rambling opening statement, the judge ordered Landers to watch the trial by closed-circuit television.

2.   But under a blistering cross-examination by Schwartz on Friday, the doctor seemed to wither and drift into rambling statements.

3.   In a rambling statement, he denied abusing his wife.

4.   Asahara, who has not entered a plea, has disrupted sessions in recent months with rambling statements and has been ejected several times from the court.

5.   Desmond Tutu repeatedly admonished him to give direct answers instead of rambling statements.

6.   He gave a rambling final statement, much of it inaudible, in which he apologized for his crimes and criticized the death penalty.

7.   In a rambling statement before the judge imposed the sentence, Ferguson tried to rebut statements from survivors and relatives of the shooting victims.

8.   Since his trial began last year, Asahara has not entered a plea and frequently has disrupted court sessions with rambling statements.

9.   The judges became visibly impatient during the rambling statements by Gill and Ledet, in which they sought to incriminate one another.

10.   Instead, he made a rambling philosophical statement, saying he pitied those who did not know the truth and wanted to liberate those who were suffering.