Trials are public and defendants can request a jury.

Impeachment trials are civil proceedings conducted in state circuit courts, but the defendant can request a jury.

In those states, a defendant can request a new trial any time new evidence that would be likely to alter a verdict is discovered.

The defendant requested that the public be excluded from the proceedings.

The defendants had requested that no hearing be held before June 2012.

Well before the trial began, the defendant requested permission to represent himself.

The defendant then requested the Council to state its conditions in respect of two of the lots so as to enable transfer to be passed.

The defendants originally requested a jury trial, but a district court judge ruled that the case should be decided by a judge.

"All the defendants have requested forgiveness under interrogation," he begins.

He said that the defendants had requested that the payments be made in cash.