I never expected justice in court, however much I fought for it, and though I sometimes received it.
Most analysts had expected Justice Kennedy to be the swing vote, but Kennedy voted with the dissenters (and would have struck down the entire law).
If approved by the State Senate, as is expected, Justice Graffeo, 48, would replace Associate Judge Joseph W. Bellacosa, who stepped down this year, with his 14-year term set to expire.
'The question is whether, when push comes to shove, our needs are going to be appropriately attended to.' Ms Arbour said the hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians who had fled or been forced out of Kosovo expected justice.
Outside of the courtroom, they were the targets of intimidation by an unfamiliar car that often parked across the street from their house, and by phone calls in the middle of the night, every night; nevertheless, inside the courtroom they expected justice.
"The Tamil people expected justice from the United Nations and thought the report might be the basis for resolving our problems," said Suresh Premachandran, president of the Tamil National Alliance, a confederation of Tamil political parties.
