31.   He had no illusions that the Boston crowd would go easy on a high-profile player involved in a domestic assault case.

32.   Legal experts say such handling of misdemeanor assault cases is common except when the accused has a criminal record.

33.   Maryland law says that a judge may dismiss an assault case if a prosecutor requests it and the victim agrees.

34.   Meanwhile, three FBI agents were due to arrive Sunday at the U.S. Antarctic base at McMurdo Sound to investigate an assault case.

35.   Members resent the way a fellow police officer was treated in an assault case against him.

36.   Nebraska football coach Frank Solich has declined to comment on the assault case other than to say university procedures will be followed.

37.   Schwarz also is awaiting a possible life sentence in the assault case.

38.   Sentencing in the assault case is expected in two weeks.

39.   She had testified earlier that prosecutors never asked for her side of the story before tsking the misdemeanor assault case to trial.

40.   The suspect was believed to have been involved in an assault case at the club recently, they said.