The verdict, which took 27 hours to reach, stunned not only legal commentators but members of a public that had been following the case.

The verdict stunned the hushed courtroom over which he once presided.

The latest verdict, in late January, stunned many Indonesians.

But the verdict by the jury of eight men and four women in a Federal court in White Plains stunned and angered civil rights leaders, who said it was based on technicalities and sent a disturbing message about permissible behavior by corporate officers.

The verdict has stunned everyone.

The verdict, which came shortly after 4 P.M., as a winter twilight wrapped the Federal courthouse here, stunned some families of the victims, who clutched handkerchiefs as the verdict was read and left the courtroom in silence.

He was flaming from the fresh reading of the ripest thought he had expressed, and her verdict stunned him.

The verdict, reached after six weeks of testimony and two days of deliberations, stunned Dr. Scoon's friends and family members, and left some jurors in tears.