21.   In addition, city officials decided they could not use homicide case files in court.

22.   In addition, the case files of the Horace Greene investigation were reviewed, and some of the people mentioned in that case were located and interviewed.

23.   In January, Baird declined to recommend that a criminal case file be opened.

24.   In the meantime, the fines are consistently nullified or reduced, according to the case files.

25.   Instead, the prosecutors set aside case files as inactive or return them with demands to provide the names of soldiers involved.

26.   Investigators combing through her case files looking for suspects have a huge chore in front of them, he added.

27.   John F. Geida, a Manhattan defense lawyer, spent Monday morning fumbling around a dark office on Thomas Street looking for case files and phone numbers.

28.   Ladd said neither the photographs of Weeks nor of her daughter are in the case file, so she cannot comment on them.

29.   McLaughlin examined each case file in the piles cluttering his office to determine the merit of the charges, Shea said.

30.   Nevertheless, gaining access to old case files could be fruitful, prosecutors say.