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Lawyers who used to slog through giant files for the "discovery" phase of a trial can turn it over to a computer.

The decision brought a jarring end to the testimony phase of a trial once predicted to last all summer.

The prosecutors said the photographs would be "particularly important" as evidence in the penalty phase of a trial, in which, assuming Mr. Moussaoui was convicted, a jury would weigh whether to sentence him to death.

The report also alleges that 121 Texas inmates have been sentenced to death based on questionable psychiatric testimony used during the sentencing phase of a trial to convince jurors that a defendant was a future danger to society.

Mac Secrest, the lawyer who defended Ms. Rodriguez, said prosecutors faced a struggle in convincing a jury in the sentencing phase of a trial that a mother would be a future danger to society or that there were aggravating factors that made the case more serious, requirements that must be met for a death penalty under Texas law.

Specifically, the court found that the statute improperly required judges to tell jurors in capital cases that if they deadlocked and failed to reach a verdict during the penalty phase of a trial, the judge would impose a sentence that would leave the defendant eligible for parole after 20 to 25 years.

He is in the opening phases of a trial in the killings of 15 opponents of his regime on Dec. 8, 1982.

Last year, he presided over two phases of a trial for claims against BP and its contractors brought by the federal government, the five Gulf states and private lawyers representing businesses and residents.

Justice Rehnquist rejected alternatives that might have addressed some concerns, like separate juries for the guilt and penalty phases of a trial or a single jury with extra jurors who could be weeded out based on their attitudes toward executions if a penalty phase was needed.

As predicted, striatal activation OFF medication was abnormal during both phases of a trial, consistent with its role in timekeeping.

Repeated-measures ANOVAs for each group tested the effect of time (i.e., 6 TRs for each phase), separately for the encoding and decision phases of a trial.