11.   Another judge is handling other riot cases.

12.   Broward Circuit Judge Patricia Cocalis wants one of the Tallahassee judges handling election lawsuits to clarify whether the ballots can be released to Judicial Watch.

13.   But even the judge handling the cases, Juan Guzman, has admitted that he will probably have to drop them because of the amnesty law.

14.   Circuit judges handle most criminal charges.

15.   Federal appeals judges handled more cases than ever last year, continuing a five-year trend of escalating caseloads, the federal judiciary reported Wednesday.

16.   Isaac and Thompson said the meeting was called to discuss the speed with which another judge was handling the case.

17.   The judge handling the suits, Juan Guzman, has been working for months, and said he plans to question Pinochet if he returns.

18.   The judges mostly handle land and other civil disputes, and few criminal cases have come their way.

19.   The judge handling the cases against Contreras, Juan Guzman, ruled that the retired general be freed during his trial if the Santiago Court of Appeals permits.

20.   The same Newport News, Va., judge handled both cases.