The defendant, Frank Barnes, was convicted of felony murder charges yesterday, a day after being convicted of second-degree murder following a three-day trial.

In a 2005 court case, United States v. Binion, the defendant was prosecuted and convicted for obstruction of justice (adding to his original sentence) because he feigned insanity in a Competency to Stand Trial evaluation.

Any defendant convicted in the same proceeding of a non-drug related misdemeanor or felony.

For example, a defendant convicted of driving while intoxicated or drug possession may be mandated to engage in alcoholism or substance abuse rehabilitation.

The 20 defendants, who are mostly from the Bronx, face between 4 and 25 years in prison if convicted.

Again and again, the defendant has convicted herself with her own words.

The jury acquitted the defendant, David Hamilton, convicting him only of a gun-possession charge, for which he has not yet been sentenced.

It was also concluded that black defendants and defendants with white victims were given harsher punishments that other defendants convicted of the same crimes.

The three defendants convicted yesterday face maximum sentences of from 25 years to life in prison.

Two other defendants convicted last month in the embassy bombings trial face sentences of life in prison.