1.   A slick, arrogant, ethically slippery defense attorney, in love with publicity and obsessed with winning at any cost.

2.   But U.S. officials refuse to award the detainees formal prisoner of war status or access to defense attorneys, contending that might impede their ongoing interrogations and intelligence gathering.

3.   Justice lawyers, meanwhile, are sifting through pending cases to determine if they must pass along new information to defense attorneys because of problems uncovered in the lab.

4.   Numerous indigent defense attorneys, because they are simply overwhelmed, say they cannot devote enough time on each individual case to assure their clients a fair trial.

5.   Riebel spent Thursday and much of Friday under cross-examination by Symington defense attorney Terence Lynam.

6.   Switching from prosecutor to defense attorney is common and considered perfectly ethical among lawyers, provided the change does not involve misuse of information acquired in public service.

7.   The admission was not made known to defense attorneys.

8.   The judge also ordered the government to surrender all of its files on the case to defense attorneys.

9.   Defense attorney Kevin Reddington, who met with McDermott, would not comment on his demeanor or a possible motive.

10.   Defense attorney Peter Neufeld, who asked Cotton about the mistakes, was stopped by the judge every time he tried to link them to the Simpson case.