Since the modification had been made so close to that trial, consideration of the voter ID provision was held until last Monday, when opening arguments of this trial took place.
"If ever a case cried out for reasonable doubt, this is it," Mr. Tacopina said during the closing arguments of the trial.
But lawyers defending the man, Nechemya Weberman, 54, of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, told a far different story during the opening arguments of his trial.
"If the baby is alive and you don't want it to be, that doesn't mean you have the right to take a pair of scissors and plunge it into the baby's neck," Ms. Pescatore told the jury during opening arguments of a trial that is expected to continue for four to six weeks.
Naseer, who somewhat perplexingly spent much of his closing argument reading from the testimony of trial witnesses, called the prosecution's case "fiction," and said "there was no direct connection" to anything found in bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad.
At this point, Don gets to make his win-the-argument speech about the dangers of trial by media, lack of due process, etc. "The law can acquit; the Internet never will.
Common arguments against the detailed presentation of trial results contend that it is unnecessary or it is unduly burdensome on authors, readers, or publishers.
Pohl rejected that argument, drawing a distinction between phases of trial.
There is more of a legitimate argument about trial by media in John Leslie's case.
Abraham Biggs, 19, broadcast his death recently on BodyBuilding.com ("Web Suicide Viewed Live and Reaction Spur a Debate"), and Megan Meier, 13, killed herself two years ago after being cyberbullied by a woman posing as a teenage boy ("Closing Arguments in Trial of Mother in Cyberbullying That Ended in Girl's Suicide").
