"Let's be honest," asserted one voice.
When Conley's lawyer, William Smith, publicly asserted Frank's innocence, he was pilloried in local newspapers and effectively run out of Georgia.
The federal filing asserts Howell's innocence but also challenges the legality of his death sentence.
His family, traumatized by the news, has asserted Mr. Hekmati's innocence, saying he was visiting relatives, and has characterized the prosecution as a grave misunderstanding.
An attorney representing Durst once again asserted his client's innocence after his appearance in court Tuesday in New Orleans.
To read it is to lose one's own innocence about the Holocaust all over again".
None of the e-mail, his lawyers point out in asserting their former client's innocence, ever threatened a biological attack or acknowledged responsibility for one.
There's a presumption of innocence and they vehemently assert their innocence," Miles Feinstein, an attorney for Joe Giudice, told reporters before the arraignment.
And he does not exempt himself from this moral mottling: on the one hand, he firmly asserts his innocence, but, on the other, he feels guilty to have survived.
"Our family has resolved to continue to work tirelessly towards securing Peter's freedom and staunchly assert his innocence.
Rather than assert his innocence or talk about justice, he offers a zigzagging meditation on the nature of fatalism.
