The 11th Circuit made it clear they would not have decided this case in the same way but they had to stand back to the INS' discretion. |
The essence of our position is (that) this is for a judge to decide when you're talking about what constitutes the United States. And, for sure, the old Key West bridge is part of our country and part of Florida. |
The government has a really difficult time getting people who are both in the radical Islamic community and reliable. Usually people like this don't come to the government voluntarily, and usually they don't come totally clean. It takes a thief to know a thief. |
The judge found that any view that the bridge was not part of the United States ... was just flat out wrong. |
The overwhelming weight of federal appellate decisions around this country would have given Elian Gonzalez an absolute constitutional right to an asylum hearing five months ago. |
They will obey the law. They will not obstruct, they will not interfere with the law under any circumstances. |
This is a matter of momentous importance not only to this child, to this community, but also literally to hundreds of thousands of refugees who seek admission in this country. |
To an amazing extent, careless e-mailing has become one of the most frequent minefields in civil and criminal discovery. Case after case, ranging from criminal prosecutions to sexual harassment lawsuits, have been anchored on careless e-mails. |
Unless this is somehow undone on appeal, she's a felon and she's going to prison. |
We believe he misappropriated the opportunity of a company's lifetime by seizing the Consumer Guide transaction. |
We call upon the INS to take no precipitous actions between now and the time this appeal is heard because we think it is so clear that the rights of child have to be heard without further disruption, without further dislocation, without further trauma of any sort. |
We're very gratified by the judge's decision. |
When you have two highly placed cooperators, it eases the prosecution's burden substantially. At the same time, when you're faced with officers who are trying a hear-no-evil, see-no-evil defense, your corroborator is bolstered because the hear-no-evil see-no-evil defense just doesn't strike jurors as common sense. |