During the preliminary hearing at the Seoul central district court on Monday, her lawyer countered prosecution allegations that Choi had conspired with the country's now impeached president, Park Geun-hye, and the former presidential aide Ahn Jong-beom to strong-arm "donations" from major conglomerates.
Mr. Williams' defense team failed to counter the prosecution.
But Mr. Robbins, who presented only two defense witnesses to counter the prosecution's 22, said the tapes fell far short of direct evidence.
David P. Baugh, another of the lawyers, told the judge he wanted to counter the prosecution's argument that Mr. al-'Owhali, in bombing the embassy, showed "disregard for innocent people who were standing around".
But Sherman and others counter that prosecution and treatment are problematic, too.'It's because of O.J. that a lot of men are now catching the blunt end of it," Michael says.
Because the police had not further investigated mysterious van sightings by neighbors or followed up on a burglar alarm that sounded at a home down the street from the Mortons' the morning of the murder or pursued the "monster" Eric spoke of, they had little evidence to develop an alternative theory to counter the prosecution's case.
His lawyers said he also plans to show an hour's videotape about atrocities in Kosovo in 1999, a tape his lawyers say will counter the prosecution's claim that it was Serbian forces that carried out the massacres and deportations there.
Legal experts say the e-mail messages could have helped counter the prosecution's argument that the company's document retention policy was "self-executing" -- that if bankers knew of a subpoena or investigation, they should save all documents, whether or not instructed to do so.
But a state appellate court overturned the first conviction in 1978, blasting Corona's defense attorney for mounting a farcical defense and calling no rebuttal witnesses to counter the prosecution's 119 witnesses.
Defense attorney Jimmy Mettias presented no evidence to counter the prosecution's case but said in court that the government had failed to place his client at the scene of the killings, adding "There has been nothing that ties Mr. Merritt to these murders".
