21.   Defense lawyers also contend that the government used the informer to unlawfully entrap Ms. Shabazz.

22.   Defense lawyers contend that the killing was justified because Campbell started the violence and beat the elder DiGuglielmo in the leg and hand with a bat.

23.   Defense lawyers may contend that Lamont substituted John Green in an account that had been described to him by Lorenzo.

24.   Defense lawyers contend that Louima was injured through consensual sex with a man.

25.   Defense lawyers contend that men surrounded by nude women in the debauched environment of a strip club often spend their money stupidly.

26.   Defense lawyers contend that police took advantage of a mentally ill and suicidal man.

27.   Defense lawyers contend that what the prosecutors did was renege on a plea bargain.

28.   Gerlaugh has withdrawn his request for a clemency board hearing, and his lawyer contends there is almost no chance at a stay of execution.

29.   Government lawyers also contended that libraries restrict all manner of materials in the normal course of buying books.

30.   Her lawyers contend that the garage door opener did not work, and that the nylon cord that can disengage the door from the automatic system had burned.