1.   Bowing to private and public pressure, Baer then reversed his ruling in the drug case.

2.   But Alavarez said he saw no reason why the development would produce a mistrial in the drug possession case.

3.   Diaz has four prior felony convictions, including two attempted robberies, an attempted assault and a drug case.

4.   He later pleaded guilty to eight perjury counts resulting from testimony in drug cases.

5.   The answer is that a few big city criminal courts did become clogged with drug cases in the seventies and eighties.

6.   He proposed that an international court be established to try drug cases.

7.   Although he gave no figures, Hutchinson said the FBI had reassigned agents in Florida and Boston from drug cases and put them to work on the terrorism investigation.

8.   Amid intense pressure from all political sides, Baer on Monday reversed course and allowed prosecutors to use the evidence in the drug case.

9.   And in California, Brown and two other men are awaiting trial in the drug case.

10.   And in drug cases, unlike any others, suspects can be convicted on the police report alone, without corroborating evidence.