11.   The defendant was tried and convicted in New Jersey on the kidnapping and accompanying gun charge.

12.   The defendants are being tried in a Revolutionary Court in which one man serves as judge, investigator, prosecutor, and jury.

13.   The defendants are being tried before separate juries.

14.   The concept, known as double jeopardy, has typically been interpreted to mean that defendants cannot be tried twice for the same crime.

15.   The president will decide which defendants will be tried by the military tribunals.

16.   Those Libyan defendants will be tried in Paris in absentia later this year.

17.   Under American legal rules, defendants are tried for specific crimes, not for having the propensity to commit crimes, legal experts say.

18.   Unlike the United States, Japan allows double jeopardy, meaning a defendant can be tried twice for the same crime.

19.   Abdel Wahid did not say whether the defendants will be tried by a military court under emergency laws or by an ordinary criminal court.

20.   All the defendants were tried under special terrorist laws that made the death penalty possible.