Besides the witness testimony, they offered surveillance recordings, expert scientific witnesses, ballistic evidence and even photographs of the defendant visiting a Six Flags amusement park in gang colors.
Fransen was also convicted on another charge of harassment after turning up at a house she mistakenly believed to be owned by another defendant, and on a third charge for visiting the home of defendant Tamin Rahmani and shouting racist abuse through his door.
One defendant visited the set of Mr. Seagal's film "Exit Wounds" in Montreal and its Hollywood premiere, the government said.
When TV licence inspectors visited the next defendant at home, in April, and found his family watching an unlicensed television, he asked them to take it away but they refused.
In an effort to assess the prospective jurors' ability to take a neutral view, the questionnaire, in addition to inquiring about their familiarity with fetish Web sites, asked whether they would be swayed by evidence that the defendant visited sites "devoted to deviant sexual behavior".
On another occasion, as an execution was approaching, I was visited by the defendant's lawyers.
In his May motion challenging her ability to stand trial, he wrote: "Counsel has visited with this Defendant on several occasions and has had difficulty developing a cogent, rational defense to these charges.
In some cases, Ms. Rucker claimed, the police arrested people even when there was persuasive evidence that they were not trespassing, citing "several instances where defendants who were guests, had the person whom they were visiting verify this fact to the arresting officer, yet the defendant was arrested anyway".
Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader, was sued while visiting New York to lobby United Nations diplomats in 1993.Some defendants have been low-level officials who suddenly found themselves face-to-face with their victims.
President Obama, in brief remarks after visiting with survivors and victims' families, refused to mention the defendant by name.
