The jury trial was conducted in Philadelphia, PA where Womack was the principal defendant.

Mr. Halperin was the principal defendant, although others were named in the court papers.

"Professor Seldon, you have just finished serving as principal defendant in a most sensational assault and battery case."

Although evidence against the five principal defendants was conclusive, evidence against the remaining 21 defendants was circumstantial.

The Committee to Re-elect the President was the principal defendant and its lawyers were defending.

Ms. Moody-Barksdale was arrested on Wednesday along with the four other principal defendants, officials said.

The principal defendant, Buffnet, eventually pled guilty to a charge of fourth degree facilitation of a felony and was fined $5,000.

The principal defendants in the case are Mr. Helmsley and his wife, Leona, who is 68 years old.

Between 1967 and 1970 Bischoff was the principal defendant in the Essen-Dora war crimes trial.

Instead it has been a slow and uneventful prosecution dominated by the failing health of the principal defendants.