41.   He had the White House press secretary, Michael McCurry, suggest that the president might ask Baer to resign unless he reversed his decision in the drug case.

42.   He served nearly four years in prison for a conviction in the drug trafficking case, the police said.

43.   He said, however, the revelations may present difficult decisions to defendants who entered negotiated guilty pleas in drug cases.

44.   His post was roughly equivalent to that of the senior FBI official responsible for drug cases.

45.   Hobbs, who was assigned to a squad that investigated drug cases, was not part of the organized crime team that had cultivated Mercurio as an informant.

46.   His last prosecution was a drug case in Jacksonville about five years ago, said an aide.

47.   If the court were to comply, scores of drug cases on appeal in which defendants did not employ the Ryan arguments could be overturned.

48.   In Bexar County, the Torres case and a separate drug case may be dismissed due to delayed indictments, prosecutors said.

49.   In football, for example, the commissioner imposes discipline in drug cases.

50.   In the drug case, the prosecutors are not directly investigating Citibank itself.