21.   The National Association of Manufacturers is currently reviewing the flat-tax proposal but has not issued a verdict -- yet.

22.   The move won a delay from Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson who had said that he was prepared to issue a verdict Tuesday.

23.   The Special Court for the Clergy, which is widely expected to convict the cleric, will issue its verdict about a week later.

24.   The verdict was issued within two and a half hours after closing arguments, raising concerns that a guilty verdict had been preordained by political authorities.

25.   Organizers stopped the crowd from burning an effigy of the German judge who issued the verdict.

26.   Prosecutors in Indonesia frequently make sentencing requests before a court has issued its verdict.

27.   A Cyprus court will issue its verdict Wednesday in a case involving three Israelis who have pleaded guilty to an armed escape from police custody.

28.   A judge doubling as prosecutor in a spy trial whose fairness has been questioned will issue a verdict in the case next week, a court official said Friday.

29.   A Saudi court trying two British nurses for the murder of an Australian woman is expected to issue its verdict Sunday, according to a court official.

30.   A Moscow city court is due to issue a verdict in Kalugin case on Wednesday.