In fact, the prosecutor contended, there was little vetting.
Witnesses provided no evidence that Mr. Sannikov or others had engaged in violence as the prosecutor contended, the lawyers said.
But Mr. Chalifoux, the prosecutor, contended that Mr. Kozlowski and Mr. Swartz had not made mere mistakes.
Boom! Boom! Boom!" During the trial, the prosecutor contended the voice was Ms. Sheehan's, and suggested she had shot her husband because he had mocked her when he saw her holding a gun.
But Anthony S. Barkow, a former federal terrorism prosecutor, contended that the sentences were still substantial, and that "this case will not deter the government from enforcing the material support statute, even against people who don't have sinister motives".
But after Gen. Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb commander, encountered paltry resistance from the Dutch United Nations peacekeepers, Bosnian Muslims and NATO warplanes defending the town, he drove his forces forward, the prosecutor contended.
