We are not asking for a pardon but for a reduction in the sentence. He was really in the wrong place at the wrong time.

We were not going to sign anything that he was a terrorist.

I would go so far as to say that, not only is Microsoft wrong about the reduction of spam, but they are actually part of the problem. Microsoft could, for example, more aggressively attack spammers operating off Microsoft-owned Hotmail accounts.

Judge yourself fairly. Sentence yourself lightly. Pardon yourself often.

The reduction from 21.6 to 21.3 is not a reduction that means much of anything. It's glacial. I've never met .3 of a child. We need to reduce the class size from approximately 22 down to 17.

If a witness has a problem with truthfulness, the question is where is the corroboration. In drug cases, you often have terrible (prosecution) witnesses, but if there is corroboration in the form of tapes or photographs, these are things that can really sway a jury.