But Mr. Fitzgerald and another prosecutor, Michael J. Garcia, depicted Mr. Mohamed as deserving nothing less than death.

More recently, defense lawyers have argued that the law encourages prosecutors to depict state crimes as Federal violations solely to get harsher sentences.

But prosecutors depicted Mr. Nhat as a full partner in the smuggling operation.

Residents, police investigators and prosecutors depicted the two neighborhoods, though relatively benign in appearance, as increasingly menaced by the Bloods in Markham Gardens and the Wolfpack in West Brighton.

The prosecutor depicted Allen as a remorseless liar.

But in a brief press conference, Ms. Clark and her fellow prosecutors depicted the defense maneuvers as a retreat.

During its five-month presentation, the prosecutors depicted Mr. Abdel Rahman as a leader who was "consulted about which targets were permissible."

On the other hand, the prosecutors depicted Mr. Peterson, 20, as enraptured with his girlfriend and loyal to her and her demand for silence.

In both trials, prosecutors depicted Mr. Yousef as a kind of evil genius, cunning and elusive.

The prosecutor depicted McInerney as a popular teenager, who was skilled in martial arts and firing guns as well as being a white supremacist.