11.   Although Kovacevic is the first defendant to stand trial on genocide charges before the tribunal, he is not the only suspect facing those charges.

12.   Authorities say he became the first defendant charged under that statute.

13.   Dusan Tadic goes on trial Tuesday in The Hague for war crimes in Bosnia, the first defendant to face the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

14.   He is the first defendant in the Justice Department inquiry to agree to cooperate.

15.   He will be the first Connecticut defendant to be tried in adult court for a murder committed when he was a juvenile.

16.   That would make him the first federal defendant whose life could depend on his own legal skills, said Richard Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington.

17.   The family of Tavassoli, the first defendant to be tried, was barred from his trial.

18.   Their hopes were dashed when Lungstrum told Anderson, the first defendant to face him, that he would not depart from sentencing guidelines.

19.   Two white men on Friday became the first defendants in the state convicted under a new federal law designed to combat the burning of black churches.

20.   Gallego is not the first defendant to make a plea agreement in the case.