One of them, Georgi Dimitrov, achieved international fame as the chief defendant in the Reichstag fire trial of 1933.
Or if the Muslim Students Association stages a mock war-crimes tribunal, with Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, as chief defendant?
When the potential jurors first visited the court on Dec. 9, Judge Frederic Block told them that the chief defendant was named Gotti and that their identities would not be revealed to anyone.
But the most important part of his settlement with them, he says, was an agreement by the chief defendant, National Paintball Supply, to publicize warnings about the danger of older valves.
Mr. Pataki is the chief defendant in the case, which charges that the formula has deprived urban students of their right to the "sound, basic education" guaranteed by the state's Constitution.
The proposal would also have allowed private firms to determine who was eligible for benefits.Michael Fortier, the government's chief prosecution witness in the Oklahoma City bombing trial, testified that Timothy McVeigh, the chief defendant, wanted to cause a "general uprising" in America.
An important exception, won by Democrats, ensures that a class-action suit must be filed in a state court if the chief defendant and at least two-thirds of the plaintiffs come from that state.Part of the debate about the effect of the new bill still revolves around how bad forum-shopping actually was.
A federal appeals court in Manhattan has upheld convictions in a terrorism case that became a focal point in the debate over the government's use of informers in undercover sting operations, though one dissenting judge concluded that the chief defendant's conviction should be reversed because he was entrapped.
Arguing that the devices violated a state constitutional ban on gambling, the governor at the time, Bob Riley, a Republican, started an aggressive campaign to shut down small bingo parlors as well as larger casinos, like one that took in millions of dollars a year and is owned by Milton McGregor, the chief defendant and one of the state's most generous campaign donors.
Schell created the role of the accused Nazi war criminals' eloquent defense attorney, Hans Rolfe, in the play's original 1959 production on the TV anthology series Playhouse 90 and won the Academy Award for best actor for his re-creation of that role in the 1961 film adaptation; he later portrayed Ernst Janning, the chief defendant, on the Broadway stage.
