51.   Prosecutors could use evidence barred in civilian courts, such as hearsay, out-of-court statements and documents seized without a warrant.

52.   Silliman and others say lawyers of the foreign-born suspects would likely argue that Americans charged with the same crimes would get more rights in a civilian court.

53.   Sixty-one percent would not allow the verdicts or sentences of those tribunals to be appealed in civilian courts.

54.   Spain announced it would not extradite eight captured suspects without assurances they would be tried publicly in a civilian court.

55.   Such rules would make the military tribunals more credible, though still less protective than civilian courts and traditional military courts-martial.

56.   Standard military courts closely resemble civilian courts in many ways, Cooke said.

57.   The administration has also proposed trying suspected terrorists in closed military tribunals instead of open civilian courts for security reasons.

58.   The charges ended a sharp debate within the Bush administration over whether Lindh would be charged in a civilian court or in a military court-martial.

59.   The courts use strict rules of evidence comparable to those in civilian courts, as against the relaxed standard allowed by Bush.

60.   The dissident officers demand that armed forces personnel be judged in civilian courts, just like any other citizen.