91.   But the attorney said the law was justified because the state had a right to hold public officials to a higher standard of conduct.

92.   But to the Hongs, their defense attorneys say, the taunts were threats.

93.   But trial attorneys say that the first legal skirmish in a preliminary hearing went pretty much as expected for the defense.

94.   But the trial is unlikely to pinpoint where such a mistake may have occurred, attorneys said.

95.   But with the trial transcript incomplete, her attorney says he is unable to appeal her case.

96.   California officials later reduced the charge to a misdemeanor and are no longer pursuing the case, his attorney said.

97.   California bankruptcy attorneys said the judge may have determined that Sears failed to make disclosures required by California law.

98.   Circuit Judge James Garrett issued a gag order on attorneys and witnesses after the excerpt was published and a defense attorney said he would ask for a mistrial.

99.   Citing a gag order, his attorneys would not say if he planned an appeal.

100.   Clearly, said attorney Roth, if a teenage boy got a teenage girl pregnant, no one would question the state for holding him responsible.