21.   Lawyers have been retained.

22.   No one has been charged in the case, although Gradilone has retained a lawyer, Albert Gaudelli, who declined to comment.

23.   Only after threatening to retain a lawyer, Whiting testified, was he permitted to vote.

24.   Pope has retained a lawyer and is exploring the possibility of suing the Mail.

25.   Rather than retain a lawyer, she contacted the couple responsible for the site.

26.   She said she had retained a lawyer to press a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city.

27.   She said her husband had retained a lawyer, who had told him to say nothing for now.

28.   Steven Lathrop, an Ellensburg, Wash., lawyer retained by Behring for this case, also cited remarks by county officials since the suits were filed.

29.   The chief said the four officers have declined to be interviewed by departmental investigators until they can retain lawyers.

30.   The deputies, who have retained lawyers, are on paid leave pending the outcome of the case.