1.   Another provision in the anti-crime package would encourage federal prosecution of stalking cases, which typically involve victims who are subjected to weeks, months or years of harassment.

2.   Attorney General John Ashcroft said Tuesday that people who perpetrate such hoaxes face federal prosecution.

3.   Attorney General Janet Reno said Thursday that the FBI and federal prosecutors were working with local authorities to decide whether to proceed with a state or federal prosecution.

4.   A federal prosecution would not preclude a trial on state charges.

5.   A federal prosecution could mean harsher sentences if the officers are convicted.

6.   A Republican lawyer told some canvassing board members that they faced federal prosecution and jail time if they persisted in rejecting overseas ballots.

7.   Abortion rights leaders called on the Justice Department Thursday to step up federal prosecutions of antiabortion activists who threaten or stalk doctors.

8.   Acquittal in a state case, however, would permit a later federal prosecution.

9.   All the more reason that follow-up federal prosecutions give pause to Randy E. Barnett, a law professor at Boston University.

10.   Brickfield remembers the last federal prosecution of a juvenile as an adult in New Jersey.