Abu Ali intends to plead not guilty to all of these charges. He expects to have a fair trial at which he will be vindicated. |
Don't make him a hero. |
He's manipulative and obviously so, and now you are the target. He's trying to write a role for himself in history, when the truth is he was just a hanger-on. |
I won't discuss it under any circumstances. |
It is difficult for the defense to fathom why the Congressman would be eager to discuss these matters on Oprah, yet he would refuse to swear, in a capital case, that the same information is actually true. |
Nothing he did or said ... caused anyone to die. |
Please don't make him a hero. He just doesn't deserve it. |
That's not a wild goose chase. That's bingo. |
The government needs jurors who have seen 'The Wizard of Oz' all the way through and still think there is a wizard. |
There isn't any way of putting the genie back in the bottle. |
They told me there was no other surveillance. But the fact is that the case against a lot of these guys just came out of nowhere because they were really nobodies, and it makes you wonder whether they were being tapped. |
This is not going to be a fair trial. |
This trial cannot be viewed by you as jurors as part of the war on terror. We must give this man a fair trial no matter who he is, what he thinks of us and who he represents. |
This will give us time to investigate the case and prepare us for trial. |
We don't think the government has any appellate rights. |