11.   How he came to be approved for the pool of lawyers who handle homicide cases is unclear.

12.   If convicted in either homicide case, he could receive the death penalty.

13.   Investigators from San Bernardino and San Joaquin counties were in Eureka last night, questioning Ford in connection with their unsolved homicide cases.

14.   Lee said he had helped Massachusetts authorities prosecute a homicide case last year by analyzing DNA from a cigarette butt.

15.   Legal experts said it was the first such homicide case in the country.

16.   Months later, after ballistics tests had been performed and homicide cases closed, Killeen Police Chief F.L. Giacomozzi used a cutting torch to dismember the weapons.

17.   More than most big cities, New York relies on private lawyers to defend the poor in homicide cases.

18.   Most cities average roughly one arrest per homicide case.

19.   So, instead of defending homicide cases involving the death penalty, Assistant Public Defender Bradley Bridge is reviewing the hundreds of cases where verdicts may be reviewed.

20.   Still, legal problems common to domestic homicide cases are already confronting prosecutors in Los Angeles.