1.   Both women were eventually excused.

2.   A woman was excused after learning that her father, a former suburban police chief, is likely to be a witness in the trial.

3.   He also excused a woman who makes her living cleaning houses while caring for her grandchildren and a daughter seriously ill with leukemia.

4.   Ito excused the woman from the sequestered jury without explanation.

5.   Another woman was excused last week after Matsch decided that she was emotionally too frail to sit through the trial.