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

2.   Briseno was acquitted of criminal and civil charges in three separate courtrooms.

3.   He was arraigned before Judge John Carter in a separate courtroom on charges of second-degree murder, first- and second-degree robbery and weapons possession.

4.   The turmoil and confusion played itself out in separate courtrooms in different parts of the state.

5.   Gore supporters, but not the candidate, are plaintiffs in the two proceedings unfolding in separate courtrooms of the Leon County Courthouse.

6.   The men, who made brief appearances in separate courtrooms, did not enter pleas.

7.   Four other PRD activists also went on trial for subversion, in cases heard at three separate courtrooms.

8.   On trial in a separate courtroom on Thursday was former East Timor governor Abilio Soares, who is charged with the same crime as Silaen.