Last night, 17 people made impassioned pleas during a public hearing not to restrict access to the parks.

The assertions were made during a hearing on a lawsuit brought by the union to stop the city's plan to reduce the number of firefighters at 53 engine companies.

The same suggestion was made by at least one member of Congress during a hearing on what went wrong during Katrina.

The supervisor of the four officers testified about statements they made that night during a pretrial hearing yesterday on the admissibility of those statements.

The suggestions were made during a nine-and-a-half-hour hearing before the infraction committee last Friday in San Diego.

Since either the defense or the prosecution can make such a request during a pretrial hearing, the judge agreed.

City lawyers made the announcement yesterday during a three-minute hearing in Brooklyn, the second of two back-to-back court proceedings about the boy's future.

Nevertheless, Feynman soon made his most famous contribution to the investigation with a sensational stunt during a hearing.

These statements might have been made during a Congressional hearing or on a platform during the Million Man March.

Mr. de Kock, convicted last month on 89 charges, including 6 murder charges, made the allegation during a hearing to help the judge decide on his sentence.