11.   After the defense lawyers made their final appeal, another prosecutor, Valerie Caproni, offered a final rebuttal for the prosecution, as allowed in federal trials.

12.   Both candidates expressed confidence of victory as they crisscrossed the state in a final appeal for votes this week.

13.   But federal courts rebuffed his final appeals, ruling that the delays were the result of his own litigiousness.

14.   But her final appeals to the Supreme Court and to Gov. George W. Bush for a reprieve were denied on Tuesday.

15.   But in the final appeal, the Law Lords ruled that so-called sovereign immunity did not apply to cases of murder and torture.

16.   China has reserved the right to have the last say on determining basic constitutional issues and has limited the autonomy of the court of final appeal.

17.   Crystallex International Corp. filed a final appeal Wednesday with the Venezuelan Supreme Court, asserting its claims to gold deposits at the Las Cristinas mine.

18.   Fujishima could receive visitors only because his final appeal of the death sentence is still pending.

19.   His last challenge, however, appeared to end in November when the U.S. Supreme Court denied his final appeal.

20.   His final appeal was to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.