The jurors in the current case, who spoke to reporters after the mistrial was declared, criticized prosecutors for not presenting their cases more simply.

He criticized prosecutors for arresting the officers at 5 A.M., rather than allowing them to surrender.

Nor, he said, did he mean to criticize prosecutors.

In his Congressional testimony, he criticized federal prosecutors for failing to pursue the 1,500 people who subscribed to the multiple sites he ran.

Defense lawyers have criticized prosecutors as trying to inflame jurors by heightening issues about race and religion to gain convictions in the case.

All three defense lawyers criticized the police and prosecutors for the way they questioned the three youths.

Defense lawyers in all courts across the country routinely criticize prosecutors for obtaining testimony by offering leniency.

Earlier, lawyers for two black victims of an attack by whites criticized the police and prosecutors.

Two criticized prosecutors for failing to prove that Mr. McClease knew the tapes were blank.

The judge also criticized prosecutors for not presenting statements from all witnesses in inquests.