The female defendant facing the most charges is Jackie Lee, a former training officer indicted on 18 counts of sexual assault and one of sodomy.

Male judges are more likely to believe a sob story from a female defendant.

The next day, the female defendants stood up and said in unison that, in light of Nixon's remark, there was no point in going on with the trial.

Wrestled to the ground by bailiffs, he was removed from the courtroom with the female defendants, who had subsequently risen and begun chanting in Latin.

The female defendants laughed.

Though the death penalty was hardly ever sought for female defendants, Tucker, along with Garrett, was sentenced to death in late 1984.

On this occasion the judge was trying to protect the reputation of the female defendant, but the enthusiasm of the popular press could not so easily be quelled.

The two black, female defendants, dressed in the habit of the Benedictine order, seem like victims trapped by a phalanx of robed white men.

The State Supreme Court has been asked to remove a judge from office for making sexual advances to female defendants.

One of the six female defendants was wearing the head-to-toe cloak which is mandatory for Afghan women in public, while the others had veils over their hair only.