21.   Mateo, who faces another death penalty trial next year in the killings of three people in an unrelated case, showed no emotion when the sentence was announced.

22.   No detective would spend so much time going back so many years on so many unrelated cases to solve this crime.

23.   Officer Richard Medley, arriving at the J.C. Penney store to pick up a shoplifter in an unrelated case, saw the man with the radio.

24.   Regular grand juries typically hear various unrelated cases and do not require special approval.

25.   Several members of the committee, which decided against investigating the president just one month ago, are themselves under investigation in unrelated cases.

26.   Shin since has been disbarred for his action in an unrelated case.

27.   Simpson said Samoyoa was purport edly a confidential informer for federal agents in unrelated cases, which means others had motives to kill him.

28.   That issue is pending in an unrelated case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

29.   The case has been on hold at the high court while the justices considered an unrelated case about whether equivalent products should be subject to patent-infringement suits.

30.   The final major delay came last spring, when Friedman was disbarred for his actions in unrelated cases.