41.   Randall and her publishing company, Houghton Mifflin, received another setback Wednesday when a federal appeals court in Atlanta refused to grant a motion for an expedited appeal.

42.   The motion was granted Monday.

43.   The motion was granted.

44.   The trial judge should have granted a motion for acquittal at the end of the case, Blue added in his opinion.

45.   Newspaper reports quoted another of his lawyers, Rene Saguisag, as saying that Estrada would not try to escape if the motion was granted.

46.   The court also granted a motion requesting the provisional release of one of the two women defendants, Ait Ballouk.