Heavy-handed bureaucrats, inconsistent prosecution, regulations based less on reality and more on momentary political considerations and a lack of legal lobbying — all this leads business executives to resort to bribery as protection, Mr. Lee and Mr. Coy ner of Soft Landing Korea said.
Richard Cullen, who was appointed a U.S. attorney under President George H. W. Bush and attorney general by former Gov. George Allen, said the "totality of the scientific evidence" and "the crime scene being inconsistent with the prosecution theory" convinced him that the four are innocent.
Ezra, an organisation for victims of right-wing, racist and anti-semitic violence in Thuringia, called police and the prosecution "inconsistent".
Defense lawyers also noted that Officer Jackson's testimony since agreeing to aid the prosecution had been inconsistent and had changed in several minor but potentially important ways.
Mr. Glisson's lawyer, Peter A. Cross, wrote that Mr. O'Malley's conclusion that Mr. Vega and Mr. Rodriguez had committed the killing alone "stands in stark contrast to the multiple and totally inconsistent statements and testimony" given by a critical prosecution witness.
He may not represent two or more defendants in a criminal prosecution if their respective defenses are inconsistent or, possibly, even when the case against one is stronger than the case against the other.
Judge Jeanette Traverso is due to decide on Monday whether to throw out the case following an application from the defence that the prosecution's argument was weak and inconsistent.
When, recently, the Court invalidated Texas's ban on same-sex sodomy, it relied on the fact that this ban was inconsistent with prevailing national values; most Americans just do not support criminal prosecutions for consensual sexual relations among adults.
