21.   Because of the lengthy legal process of motions, hearings and appeals, the death penalty is extraordinarily expensive.

22.   A flagging recall drive suggests that voters are willing to let the legal process work.

23.   A brief court hearing concluded a legal process that is surprisingly complicated considering this case did not involve any type of custodial dispute.

24.   A legal process is going ahead in an orderly way.

25.   A legal process that not many believed could workis working.

26.   Both sides would then remain free to appeal, all the way up the Supreme Court, a legal process that could consume several years.

27.   But because the arguments are at root political ones, legal processes can never resolve them fully.

28.   But legal scholars said there was no analogy between a criminal case and impeachment, which is a political act as well as legal process.

29.   But Naimski denies that the government or the Solidarity leader Marian Krzaklewski, also running for president, manipulated the legal process in any way.