1.   Doctors there wanted to keep him for an extended period, but he demanded a hearing, and a Nassau County judge freed him.

2.   Not helping that process is the fact that President Martin Van Buren is campaigning for re-election and will lose the Southern vote if a Yankee judge frees the Africans.

3.   A federal judge freed them temporarily, then ordered them detained after they refused to post bail.

4.   A judge freed Salvati recently after concluding FBI agents hid testimony that would have proven Salvati and others innocent in order to protect an informant.

5.   A judge on Thursday freed a man who had been suspected of involvement in a coup attempt, but police immediately rearrested him as he left the courthouse.

6.   A Mexican federal judge freed him late Monday after dismissing a heroin possession charge as unproven.

7.   A judge on Tuesday freed a Zapatista sympathizer who was once accused of helping to kill seven police officers in an ambush in southernmost Chiapas state.

8.   A judge freed former Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega of rape charges brought by his step-daughter, ruling on Wednesday that the statute of limitations has run out.

9.   A judge freed them in May, finding they were jailed too long without a hearing.

10.   A military judge freed an ex-Nazi major accused in World War II massacre from house arrest on Thursday, saying his court had no jurisdiction.