Rounding out the roster, the two sides will argue before Judge Katherine B. Forrest, a longtime corporate lawyer and relative newcomer to the bench who will face her biggest securities trial yet.
A guilty verdict in Chinese security trials is virtually preordained.
It would end the illusion that there is any longer an entity called the Palestinian Authority".He cites as an example of that illusion the spectacle of Mr Arafat holding "security trials" for Palestinians within his compound because he is unable, at the point of Israeli guns, to leave its front door.
Officials said they were preparing for a high-security trial, aware that lawyers and court personnel and jurors might feel that they faced risks.
Last Monday, the federal Department of Homeland Security began screening passengers on the Shore Line East rail line that goes from New Haven to New London, part of a 30-day security trial the agency has also run in other parts of the country.
But when Judge James A. Parker of federal District Court in Albuquerque decided on Thursday to release the nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee on bail, the order cast this important national security trial in a different light and created potentially difficult problems for the government.
But then the high-security trial of Sánchez and four others for a series of bomb blasts in Paris nearly 30 years ago opened, and "Carlos" revealed that he may be older and creakier, but he has lost none of his ability to provoke and polarise.
The division, for instance, has curbed its use of expert witnesses in some securities fraud trials, Mr. Khuzami said.
In the letter, prosecutors said Kumar was essential in helping the government improve its case and convict Rajaratnam and Gupta, "two of the most important securities fraud trials in history".
In recent years, the level of security for trials has varied according to the preferences of each judge.
