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"The jury has to be free to consider anything about the defendant that might call for a sentence of less than death," Steiker said.

Added humiliation came from a salacious sexual-harassment trial, with Thomas as a defendant, that played out in a courtroom last summer.

Three-quarters of those questioned said they would tell a court official or the judge if another juror admitted finding information about the defendant that had not been disclosed in court.

To make sure Section 285 is implemented with appropriate vigor, judges must look more closely for signs that a patent lawsuit was pursued primarily to take improper advantage of a defendant — that is, using the threat of litigation cost, rather than the merits of a claim, to bully a defendant into settling.

Capital punishment lawyers from around the country have said the Suffolk County case is providing New York with its first example of a type of death penalty defendant that has troubled judges around the country: so-called volunteers, who tie the system in knots by essentially challenging the courts to put them to death.

There were tear-filled delays; there was what appeared to be an epileptic seizure by one defendant that brought emergency medical technicians to the courtroom; there was a sudden questioning by the couple of the very wording of their previously agreed-to plea arrangement.

In addition, alleged offenses of the co-defendant that had nothing to do with Ms. Murphy were unfairly tried at the same time.

The claim: He violated securities law by selling (at 5 cents each) 235,000 unregistered shares, received as a legal fee, in U.S. Wind Farming, a co-defendant that settled with the SEC.

In one case a man was executed despite the last-minute plea of his co-defendant that he was innocent.

He added that the government's own secretly recorded videotape in the case shows his client telling the informer and a co-defendant that he had to ask his mother whether he could take part in the plot.

Dines gained access to the confidential legal advice given to Steel and her co-defendant that was written by Keir Starmer, then a barrister known for championing radical causes.