1.   And while the witnesses who testified against Derek Spencer may not have had completely consistent testimony, it does not mean they lack credibility, prosecutors said at trial.

2.   Another witness, prosecutors said, identified someone fitting a different description.

3.   At the site, Dunham ran into an acquaintance, Jacquelin Delgado, an unemployed emergency medical technician who lived in his neighborhood, prosecutors said.

4.   Behind that capture, prosecutors said, was another strange twist in a bizarre case.

5.   -- District Attorney Gil Garcetti said prosecutor Bill Hodgman, who was hospitalized two weeks ago with chest pains, would return today to the prosecution team.

6.   After investigators talked with him, they decided that there was nothing they could do and closed the case, prosecutors said.

7.   All these arguments, in the end, just boil down to quibbles consistently rejected by judges from here to Washington, said prosecutor Whitney.

8.   But Christie also confessed to a co-worker and his father, prosecutors said.

9.   But it has taken weeks for two of the traumatized youngsters to offer statements against their parents, which were necessary for the arrests, a prosecutor said.

10.   But Whittredge was never an astronaut, never received the Medal of Honor and never worked for the CIA, said prosecutor Mike Schultz.