1.   A sympathetic judge permitted her to bring up the child.

2.   A sympathetic judge in Maryland finally allowed me to examine my adoption file.

3.   Defense lawyers said that prosecutors would hitch the most sympathetic judge to their cases early on by involving them, at first, in some administrative task.

4.   He had avoided jail time on his last cocaine possession conviction because a sympathetic judge felt his rehab and cancer treatments would be better conducted outside confinement.

5.   Others said that the American lawyers who filed the suit were looking for a potentially sympathetic judge to hear the case.

6.   Strahan has found a sympathetic federal judge in Douglas Woodlock, who ordered Massachusetts to come up with a plan to reduce fishing gear entanglements.

7.   Sympathetic judges allowed her to compete in the finals, which would have dropped Pickett from the field.

8.   A lawyer for Ruiz Massieu, Cathy Fleming, derided the application as an attempt to shop around for the most sympathetic judge.

9.   But then a sympathetic judge put a stop to the legalistic squabbling and urged the couple to try counseling.

10.   Critics say the government has packed the courts with new judges sympathetic to the ruling party.