His evidence changed a number of times up to the opening of the trial.

Even with the opening of the trial, however, it is unclear how far the proceedings will go.

His lawyer said he was suffering from pneumonia and might have to miss the opening of the trial if it begins as scheduled May 13.

He ordered that the deposition be taken beginning Aug. 12, four weeks before the scheduled opening of the trial.

The public confession came after the government refused to allow family members, human rights groups or the public to witness the opening of the trial.

The defendants' unconditional bail was extended until the opening of the trial, scheduled for 2 October 2012.

At the opening of the trial last week the jury of seven men and five women were shown the Death Penalty?

Microsoft made a similar request for months of delay to prepare for the opening of the trial two years ago and Judge Jackson rejected it.

Speaking during the opening of the trial, one defendant said the son of President Joaquim Chissano had ordered the murder.

For relatives of the victims who came to the opening of the trial, the horror has remained vivid even as they became conditioned by time to their losses.

The first was of the British captain, Thomas Preston, the opening of the trial being delayed until October when passions had cooled.

Sea Girt's lawyer, William H. Burns Jr., said at the opening of the trial that the community's costs have exceeded revenues.

Organizers of the demonstration had hoped to gather 30,000 people for the opening of the trial, though police officials said they believed the number was closer to half that.

"These people were making their investments so they could get these contracts," Assistant United States Attorney John Compton said at the opening of the trial.

At the opening of the trial the local Chief Constable William E Morant appeared and offered no evidence against Atkinson, who was released.

At the opening of the trial last Thursday in Rabat, lawyers were granted an adjournment until August 18 to allow victims and defense teams sufficient preparation time.

The opening of the trial was not announced in advance, and after a brief session Saturday in Gaza City, the proceedings were adjourned until Feb. 29.

The opening of the trials of the Knights Templar and the later suppression of the order allowed the Crown to take over their revenues in the islands.

The association's president, Patrick Lynch, will attend the opening of the trial, the officers' testimony, and other dramatic moments; at least one association board member will attend each day.

The timing, these observers say, had to do with staying on schedule for the anticipated opening of the trial on Jan. 5, a timetable agreed to by the judge in the case.

Mr. Asahara is widely expected to be found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging, and the first step of the process was to have been the opening of the trial Thursday.

The journal of Sir Simonds D'Ewes from the beginning of the Long Parliament to the opening of the trial of the earl of Strafford, ed.

A six-year-old Spanish scandal involving tainted cooking oil, in which more than 600 people have died, goes to court Monday with the opening of the trial of 40 importers accused in the case.

When at the opening of the trial his name as commissioner was read out in court by the clerk, Essex, according to an eye-witness, laughed contemptuously and tugged Southampton by the sleeve.