16 ordspråk av Anthony Ricco
Anthony Ricco
He is a very frightened 19-year-old.
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He is living in a mud hut in the middle of nowhere with his Koran, his wife, and his child,
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He never said he was responsible because this was something that he did.
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He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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I really felt a sense of his pain. He was a person who was wrongly accused at a very difficult time.
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Most of these cases become the battleground for fundamental issues that every defendant has in a criminal case.
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Other than the interpreters' booths, the courtroom has the normal appearance of a multi-defendant trial.
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Several of them had,
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The case certainly has a high level of security unparalleled in my experience of practice in the federal court.
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The concept of blowing up innocent people is not permissible.
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The fact that his family was there and that he traveled with so little clothing, ... to come back.
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These cases teach us, me and you, how important and how cherished the rights are that we have. After all, it is those rights that were under attack.
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They thought they had someone, and they pressed him and pressed him. Civil liberties were put on hold, because the government was dealing with a tragedy of enormous proportions.
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This case had a powerful emotional component and I was concerned that we would not be able to overcome that.
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to stop the carnage and the starvation.
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