The majority focuses on the Court's isolated statement that "destruction of property in the course of a search may violate the Fourth Amendment, even though the entry itself is lawful and the fruits of the search are not subject to suppression". Ramirez, supra, at 71 (emphasis added).
They found that in 0.05% of the 89,000 pages of Steiner's published works, a total of 16 sentences that "were of a nature that as isolated statements … would violate the present-day, well-developed and highly sensitive Dutch law on discrimination".
These were not isolated statements, but part of a national campaign to distinguish Second Life from other virtual worlds and induce the purchase of virtual property.
The immense quantity of such representations is relevant to showing that these are not isolated statements, but rather, part of a national campaign in which defendant Rosedale individually and actively participated.
The other two cases cited by Rosedale are also distinguishable, because they involved isolated statements that were not, as is the case here, an integral part of a larger publicity campaign of national scope.
conduct," including isolated statements.
In sum, while the defendants rest their case on the laws that were actually enacted by Congress, the publishers resort to summaries of their own views, comments about sections of the Act not at issue, and isolated statements by participants in the legislative process whose comments were never enacted into law and which directly conflict with the express provisions of the law.
We have to focus on issues that are actually true," Camacho said, "and not isolated statements that can in no way be backed".
Admissions, confessions, even seemingly innocent, isolated statements -- statements that defendants think make them appear innocent -- are no less (and maybe even more than) DNA evidence, a prosecutor's most potent weapon in a criminal case; as evidence of guilt goes, they are the Holy Grail.
Nancy (and I call her by her first name because, believe it or not, I know this woman personally) proceeded to take isolated statements that I made and present them as fully independent thoughts, without including my milder supporting comments or the often insulting words of those who I'll dub The Defenders of Feminine Virtue.
