41.   Other defendants either said they could not comment because they had not read the ruling or did not immediately return calls.

42.   Sobel said past cases have shown that what defendants said have falls within the range of fair comment.

43.   Some defendants without lawyers said they did not want the court to appoint any.

44.   The defendant said he told Browning that it was too risky to try to smuggle arms into Sweden and eventually dissuaded him from carrying out the proposed hit.

45.   The defendant said the dummy mail bombs were intended only to scare rather than to harm, but prosecutors say the detonators themselves could explode and cause injuries.

46.   The defendants did not say whether they would appeal.

47.   The defendants said they were treated unfairly because they were compelled to give statements to regulators, and the regulators handed the information over to police.

48.   The defendants say that they were fed false information by the intelligence chief in a deliberate attempt to discredit the newspaper because of its criticism of the government.

49.   The defendants say they never knowingly approved the use of contaminated blood products in transfusions.

50.   The defendants say they were engaged in trying to build a legitimate business venture.