21.   American, which protested its innocence from the beginning and spent millions on its defense, was jubilant Friday.

22.   As Law protested his innocence, one of the agents finally pulled him aside and told him the simple facts.

23.   As rumors swirled about high-level political involvement in the assassination, Reyes went on a popular nightly television news show to protest his innocence.

24.   After Woodward was convicted, many in the British media protested her innocence.

25.   After having protested his innocence for months, Volpe then confessed to sodomizing Louima with a stick in a police precinct house bathroom.

26.   After protesting her innocence for eight months, swimmer Jessica Foschi has been exonerated by an arbitration panel that removed sanctions arising from her positive steroids test.

27.   But in a defiant statement read by Clive Nicholls, his chief lawyer, he protested his innocence and said he was the victim of a political conspiracy.

28.   Campbell said Sands collapsed in tears and McKevitt then took the phone and protested his innocence.

29.   Collor has always protested his innocence and planned to launch his campaign for the presidency in the next month.

30.   Despite his plea of no contest, Matt left the courtroom protesting his innocence.