91.   Charges were eventually dropped and the case was dismissed.

92.   Cigarette companies say they still believe that a higher Florida court will eventually dismiss the case.

93.   Company lawyers tried but failed to get the case dismissed.

94.   Daniel Batista was not among the fortunate defendants whose cases were dismissed before their sentences were finished.

95.   Defendants were about as likely to be charged with first-degree murder as all murder defendants and were no more likely to be acquitted or have their cases dismissed.

96.   Deferred adjudication is a type of probation that allows the case to be dismissed if all conditions of probation are met.

97.   Earlier Friday Fieger twice asked Breck to dismiss the case because his client was being denied due process.

98.   Earlier this year, Judge Peter K. Leisure rejected a motion by lawyers for Forbes Inc. to dismiss the case.

99.   Each time, state workers failed to step in, dismissing the case as low-risk.

100.   Eleven of those arrested have already pleaded guilty, and two cases were dismissed earlier.