41.  A trial in such a case typically would be scheduled nine months after indictment, Ayotte said.

42.  A third defense strategy in such a case might be a claim that McVeigh was motivated by political opposition to some drastic government action or injustice.

43.  A U.S. District Court in San Francisco had ruled that the law did not apply in such a case.

44.  Alan Lebowitz, a senior Labor Department pension official, said he was not surprised that such a case had been filed.

45.  But during the research for their report, project staff members found such a case and reported the family to the Department of Children and Families.

46.  But Fritz has never come across such a case.

47.  But if such a case were brought, the outcome would depend less on the medium and more on the message.

48.  But if the parents were criminally charged for the killings, legal experts say, such a case would be extremely difficult to prove.

49.  But no prosecutor has tried a death-penalty case in New York, and no lawyer has defended someone in such a case, in nearly a generation.

50.  But not many prosecutors would try to make such a case, Stone said.