In any event, vigorous trial battles and appeals would probably mean that no execution would be imminent.
"It's important to state that this approach is a product of some vigorous trials which taken place in the last 12 years," he said.
It was the Hinckley family's prosperity that allowed it to hire Williams and Connolly, whose aggressive advocacy, along with that of the prosecution, helped make the trial a vigorous contest.
John M. Massameno, senior assistant state's attorney for the Waterbury judicial district, said that Mr. Cobb was essentially seeking to retry the case and that he had had a vigorous defense in his original trial.
A1 Former Enron Chief Testifies Kenneth L. Lay, Enron's former chief executive, testified at his fraud trial, offering a vigorous denial of the federal charges against him, particularly those accusing him of conspiring to defraud investors after he returned as Enron's chief executive in August 2001.
The dramatic five-day trial saw Bo launch a vigorous defence.
The trial comes after years of a vigorous public debate over the Police Department's growing reliance on stop-and-frisk tactics, which Mr. Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly have steadfastly defended as effective tools in reducing gun violence.
Wright is planning a vigorous appeal, including a motion for a new trial," Steinberg said.
Instead, our job right now is to bury the dead, care for the wounded, and give Dzhokhar Tsarnaev a fair trial -- one marked by a vigorous prosecution and a zealous defense.
