"Now," said Debra Pomodore, a senior prosecutor, "you were saying you were afraid for your mother, is that what you said?" "Yes," said Raymond Sheehan, 21, a thin cello of a man, whose every note of testimony sounded clear, mournful and resonant.
Some Democrats called King's effort "McCarthy-like", while others chided the chairman for his failure to examine other forms of radicalization and noted the absence of testimony from experts who have studied the phenomena. .
The previous year had been especially hot the country suffered one of the worst droughts since the Dust Bowl, Yellowstone was ablaze for weeks––and some Americans, including McKibben, had taken note of the ominous testimony that James Hansen, a NASA climatologist, gave before a Senate committee, warning that, owing to greenhouse gases, the planet was heating up inexorably.
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai recently raised a note of caution in testimony before Congress: "If the Commission starts picking and choosing who may participate in the forward auction... it will result in less participation, less revenue, less spectrum available for mobile broadband, and less funding for public safety".
Seated in the back row of the jury box one day, wearing a tan suede shirt over a white turtleneck and a pair of blue jeans, he studiously took notes during the parade of testimony.
Along with more than four hours of videotape, CNN notes that 3,183 pages of testimony and evidence were released.
The jury's only note asked for a rereading of testimony from a defense psychiatrist, Dr. Eric Goldsmith, who provided Mr. Hayes's lawyers with an argument that, if accepted unanimously by the jury, would bar a death sentence.
Minutes after Judge Coleman sent the jury back to the deliberation room shortly before 3 p.m., the jurors sent out a second note, asking for a rereading of testimony by three witnesses to the shooting -- Kent Culuko, a close friend of Mr. Williams; and two members of the Harlem Globetrotters, Howard P. Gaffney and Chris Morris.
Even on the most complex cases (which he, tireless, likes best) he never needs notes, never forgets a word of testimony once it is on the record.
The assistant district attorney Elizabeth Loewy, of the Elder Abuse Unit, noted that testimony of other jurors had contradicted the claims DeMarco was making.
The jurors sent two notes yesterday asking to hear readings of testimony.
