21.   Courts have disbanded most class-action tobacco cases, and tobacco company lawyers tried their utmost to have this one dismissed.

22.   Defense lawyers may also try to show that government evidence is circumstantial and does not directly implicate McVeigh.

23.   Defense lawyers tried to make authorities cough up that secret this week before a judge in Newark.

24.   Defense lawyers tried to have the three men tried separately, but the judge, Peter Leavitt, denied the request.

25.   Defense lawyers will also try to convey that more is at stake than simply the fate of four officers.

26.   Defense lawyers are trying to show that the judges who approved the wiretaps were misled because they were not told that Bulger and Flemmi were FBI informants.

27.   Defense lawyers tried to get witnesses to say that both CIA and FBI agents were tramping the moors, with opportunities aplenty to plant or steal evidence.

28.   Defense lawyers are trying to persuade the jury to give him a life sentence instead of the death penalty.

29.   Defense lawyers tried to discredit that part of her testimony, noting she had earlier said Diallo stood during most of the gunfire.

30.   Defense lawyers tried to get Bell to say he crossed the street because he feared the stranger, Diallo.