31.   Claiming his client on federal death row is innocent, an Atlanta lawyer Thursday asked President Clinton to commute the pending execution of David Ronald Chandler.

32.   Defense lawyers are asking the judge to bar the taped telephone calls and statements from Jones.

33.   Defense lawyers asked the judge to poll the jury, to see how they voted.

34.   Defense lawyers had asked him about that case to attack his credibility.

35.   Defense lawyers had asked that the trial be postponed because of negative publicity after court documents relating to the case were reported missing.

36.   Defense lawyer Chip Lewis asked Sylvia Coy what things about her brother the jurors should consider in deciding whether to give him probation.

37.   During jury selection, a lawyer can ask the judge to dismiss a potential juror for cause, meaning a bias or another problem.

38.   Earlier, her personal lawyer had asked the court to keep the defendant out of the courtroom during her testimony, or allow her testimony to be videotaped.

39.   Fenton could not remember whether Duran was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation by the Army, although he said military defense lawyers often ask for such testing.

40.   For instance, the lawyers asked that any item filed with the court that contains, or even discusses, confidential information should be filed under seal.