31.   In his annual year-end report, Rehnquist urged Congress to provide more pay for lawyers who represent federal criminal defendants too poor to afford an attorney.

32.   In June, an appellate panel ruled that criminal defendants in pending cases could introduce evidence of racial profiling to seek dismissals.

33.   In his order, Brown says that state law requires that criminal defendants be committed to the State Hospital if they need residential treatment and are dangerous.

34.   In the time-honored tradition of criminal defendants, Cruz contends she, not he, inflicted the fatal blows in the apartment they shared on Quincy Street.

35.   Indeed, even petitioner acknowledges that an exception may be appropriate where the constitutional rights of a criminal defendant are at stake.

36.   Judges and prosecutors worry that allowing criminal defendants to examine the human element in the judicial process will have enormous consequences.

37.   Last month, the court ruled unanimously that a criminal defendant could not sue his lawyer for malpractice unless his conviction was first set aside on appeal.

38.   Lawyers who have watched Justice in court said he gives criminal defendants a fair trial, listening carefully to the evidence.

39.   Much of the courthouse planning focused on the circulation of judges, jurors, criminal defendants, litigants and the public.

40.   Needless to say, many elements of the Kyl-Feinstein Amendment could impinge on the rights of criminal defendants.