41.   One bill would expunge the records of criminal defendants whose charges are dismissed if they stay out of trouble for a period of years.

42.   Over the last three decades, Michael E. Tigar, a law professor in Austin, Texas, has represented many of the most vilified of criminal defendants.

43.   Partly because of the arrival of the Pataki appointees, defense lawyers say the court has been growing increasingly unsympathetic to arguments from criminal defendants.

44.   Parks added he has requested the recall of fugitive arrest warrants against eight criminal defendants in tainted cases.

45.   Previously, three other federal appeals courts had upheld the law in appeals brought by criminal defendants.

46.   Sharif, like all criminal defendants, is required to read a statement to the court.

47.   Sharif, like all criminal defendants here, is required to read a statement to the court.

48.   Simpson, they say, may eventually walk, but not before imperiling the rights of thousands of other criminal defendants less well heeled than he.

49.   Some Republicans also expect a flurry of measures that will try to curb illegal immigration and cut back on the rights of criminal defendants.

50.   State agencies were also allowed to use other languages to protect public health or safety and to ensure that the rights of criminal defendants and crime victims were protected.