31.   During a federal court hearing Wednesday afternoon, three suspects protested their innocence through a Vietnamese interpreter.

32.   During the Jordanian trial last year, the defendants protested their innocence and said they had been tortured into confessing.

33.   Dorfman also protested his innocence.

34.   During his first three weeks in custody, Higazy protested his innocence and volunteered to take a polygraph test.

35.   Even as companies protest their innocence, investors are putting their shares and bonds to the sword.

36.   Finally, when asked where the investigation of his conduct might eventually lead, he again protested his innocence.

37.   For his part, Suard, an intense man with neatly combed silver hair, a square face and gentle eyes, protests his innocence.

38.   From the first, Landano protested his innocence.

39.   Fulton continued to protest his innocence Tuesday.

40.   From jail, Bar-Jonah has protested his innocence.