1.   At least seven U.S. marshals took up positions in the small courtroom, with another posted outside.

2.   At one point, deputies taped white paper over the small courtroom window to keep a growing crowd from trying to catch a glimpse of Gretzky.

3.   At that point, Puccio moved quickly across the small courtroom from the lectern in front of the jury box to the defense table.

4.   But before long, the small courtroom began to erupt with complaints, one defendant after another rising to express the accumulated grievances of five weeks in detention.

5.   Judges were transferred several times during the case, and hearings were held in a small courtroom that often seemed to be on the edge of chaos.

6.   Kiareldeen answered questions Tuesday from his lawyer, Regis Fernandez, in a small courtroom where the eight guards outnumbered the spectators.

7.   Several members of the jury, which deliberated nine hours over two days, were in tears when they filed into the small courtroom Monday afternoon.

8.   She smoothed her hair once, glanced briefly at spectators in the small courtroom, and at one point rested her cheek on her hand.

9.   The hearing, to be held in a small courtroom in Stamford, Conn., will be a mini-trial that is expected to last several days.

10.   The small courtroom conceals the magnitude of the case.