11.  Cerussi also defended IBM in a widely publicized case last year in Hastings, Minn.

12.  Consider the widely publicized case of Teresa Macias, the Sonoma housekeeper killed in April by her estranged husband.

13.  Defense lawyers have sought to convince the jury that their clients were falsely accused by the authorities because of intense pressure to gain convictions in the highly publicized case.

14.  Ecstasy-related deaths are rare, but in a few highly publicized cases, clubbers have died after taking small doses of the drug.

15.  Family Court has also come under pressure from the news media to open hearings in highly publicized cases of child abuse and violent crime by young people.

16.  Fourteen states have enacted programs to help such people, authorities said, often after highly publicized cases involving the deaths of witnesses.

17.  Gordon said that because it is increasingly difficult to find jurors who know nothing about highly publicized cases, sequestration has become a more symbolic act.

18.  He added that highly publicized cases of mentally ill patients who commit violent acts have made judges extremely cautious.

19.  He has successfully sued several strip clubs in highly publicized cases involving fatal auto accidents caused by patrons or employees of the clubs.

20.  He later laid the blame for a gruesome Illinois triple murder on a welfare society, repeating a tendency to tie highly publicized criminal cases to past Democratic policies.