1.   Earlier, her personal lawyer had asked the court to keep the defendant out of the courtroom during her testimony, or allow her testimony to be videotaped.

2.   Her lawyer, Nicholas DeWitt, asked the court to keep the defendant out of the courtroom during her testimony, or allow her testimony to be videotaped.

3.   If the answer is yes, the defendant is kept in the system and moved on a track toward trial.

4.   Prosecutors must then prove each year that defendant remains dangerous and mentally ill to keep the defendant in custody.

5.   Some also say that barring plea bargaining drains resources by keeping defendants locked up in jail for months awaiting trial.

6.   The courts are designed to keep treatable defendants out of prison.

7.   The motion was brought by the prosecutor, Raja Qureshi, who asserted that the judge was unable to keep the defendants under control.

8.   Those guidelines leave little discretion for judges to keep defendants out of jail, even in a plea deal.

9.   As a rule, defendants are kept in custody if the court believes they could influence the witnesses.

10.   Prosecutors had asked a Jerusalem magistrate to keep the defendants in jail until the start of the trial.