Mr. Li's mother, Meng Ge, is also a well-known military singer, and his prominent, privileged background made his trial the focus of intense local news media attention, with citizens voicing suspicions that he would be treated leniently because of his status.
Some lawyers said a decision by the government to return Mr. Ghailani to military custody, if he were acquitted, could make his civilian trial seem meaningless.
The judge's ruling doesn't assure Salaita of victory; he still has to make his case at trial.
The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is due to make his final statements at his trial in The Hague.
Like him or not, Slobodan Milosevic believes that he has been abducted from his home, dragged to The Hague, humiliated and denied an opportunity to make his argument that the trial is illegal.
After Ms. Schubert heard about Replagal, she said, the Fabry specialist at the University of Utah who supervised her husband's care tried but failed to make his university a clinical trial site for the drug.
Around four in the morning of the day of the opening, Knievel made his first trial jump, landed, zoomed into the wings, and smashed into the wall, injuring himself (one of the handlebars went into his groin; his legs were bruised) and wrecking the front end of his motorcycle.
It was not immediately clear Monday when Judge Farnan would make his decision or whether the trial would resume.
Kennedy, who had three down years, was trying to make his return at the Olympic trials.
The two-time Olympian Shayne Culpepper, who hopes to compete in the 1,500 meters at the Beijing Olympics next summer, says she will be "biting my nails with the rest of the wives" while her husband, Alan, tries to finish in the top three at the trials to make his third Olympic team.
