A court spokesman said the gewgaws had been sent to them.

A court spokesman said the justices would issue a full opinion within several weeks.

But some defendants, their lawyers and even a court spokesman said that a conviction now was highly unlikely.

They paid about $165 each, according to the court spokesman.

But the letter did not set out his version of what he said, and a court spokesman declined to comment.

A court spokesman later said that the gloves were the same model found by the police though not necessarily the same pair.

A date will be set soon, a court spokesman said.

A court spokesman said it was the first such arrangement since the passage of the state's new death penalty law.

On their return, a court spokesman offered to trade two cups of coffee for an accounting of where they had been.

But the conditions of their detention are not uncomfortable, Scottish court spokesmen say.