There were no experts brought to the stand on the state's behalf. The appeal bond was not a condition of his physical improvement. The idea that he is a flight risk is absurd. Is the man going to flee with a walker, running down the road?

The whole thing was conspired by Jim Hood.

The '60s was a terrible era in a lot of ways. We do not need to relive them, and we do need to go forward. What I'm asking you to do is to look at this evidence and hold the state to the burden of proving this case beyond a reasonable doubt.

If you screw the law for one case, it will screw the law for everybody.

He told them he didn't have the $4,000.

In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that they can draw no independent conclusions about truth, unless they cite a study and "experts" have affirmed it. "Studies show" is to the modern secular college graduate what "Scripture says" is to the religious fundamentalist.