1.   A source close to the defense team said the no contest plea was a key element in plea bargain negotiations.

2.   And the defense team, slogging through hour after hour of technical material, grew increasingly annoyed.

3.   But it could have strategic value for a defense team facing the biggest case filed against an Aberdeen soldier to date.

4.   He smiled often and passed notes to members of the defense team.

5.   Peres said the defense team would appeal the sentencing by Judge Bernardo Tirado.

6.   Although the cost of his all-star defense team is reckoned to have virtually consumed his previous fortune, other income sources beckon.

7.   And his defense team even worse.

8.   And several members of the defense team, not to mention Simpson, himself, have been hunting for publishing deals as well.

9.   And the defense team will have to access classified materials.

10.   And on one occasion, she said, a sympathetic sheriff kept the entire defense team in jail overnight to protect them from a mob.