11.   Joseph Mahoney, a spokesman for the attorney general, said in a telephone interview that the information was irrelevant to the defamation trial.

12.   Jury selection in the federal defamation trial was to begin today in Amarillo, where a livestock mural is painted above the courthouse elevators.

13.   Pagones figures that this defamation trial was about nothing but the truth.

14.   She is not expected to testify at the defamation trial.

15.   Since Hickman had once complained of being defamed, Sharpton asked, how could he be impartial in a defamation trial?

16.   Sharpton, taking a weekend break from giving testimony at the Tawana Brawley defamation trial in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., will not attend the conference here until Monday.

17.   There are times when Michael A. Hardy plays the court jester, defusing tensions at the Tawana Brawley defamation trial with cunning quips and loopy asides.

18.   There was testimony Wednesday at the Tawana Brawley defamation trial.

19.   A British attorney cross-examining Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong in a defamation trial accused him Tuesday of not being truthful and questioned his assertion that Singapore is a democracy.

20.   During his second day of testimony at his defamation trial, Liddy was asked whether he considered assassinating Dean.