31.   When trial opened a day late, Circuit Judge Judith A. Fullerton was determined to minimize media distractions.

32.   Yet Wladimiroff said he has serious misgivings and as the trial opened, he told the court he doubted that a fair trial was possible at all.

33.   Prosecutors had demanded the death penalty for Salman on Saturday when the trial opened.

34.   Pink who testified when the trial opened last week claims she found out Georgiou was HIV positive only after they became lovers.

35.   ---- US NICHOLS - The second Oklahoma City bombing trial opens in Denver on Monday.

36.   A federal trial opened Wednesday over claims the Monsanto Co. poisoned an Alabama community with toxic chemicals for decades and tried to cover up the problem.

37.   A few months later, prosecutors announced new charges of embezzlement, and his second trial opened last month.

38.   A new trial opened Wednesday for former Premier Silvio Berlusconi and nine others on bribery and corruption charges.

39.   A war crimes trial opens Tuesday for a Bosnian Serb bar owner accused of violating humanitarian laws spawned by World War II but never before tested in international proceedings.

40.   All three pleaded not guilty to charges of manslaughter, kidnapping and conspiracy to rape when the trial opened last week.