My client . . . is extremely upset and offended at the personal affronts contained in the letter directed not only at him but also at his players.

He's not some cold-hearted killer who went to the hospital out of a show. He was extremely upset and distraught to the point of severe depression that evening.

The letter offended me personally, not as a council member, but as a citizen of Warrick County. I interpreted the letter to mean that the more a deputy would make, the better they would protect the citizens of the county.

My client isn't going out of the way to say things about them.

Testimony showed my client (Copeland) didn't have anything to drink. My client did not provoke this fight.

[The outlook for Japan is not all cherry blossoms and sake, though.] We don't have a boom in consumption yet, ... The rise in corporate profits has come out of workers' hides. Also, this is an economy that still needs to make big productivity gains.