She said that opponents and supporters of the gun bills received equal time to testify and that it was the same amount of time allotted for testimony during similarly high-profile debates.
Also, the aide said, the committee had too many potential witnesses and too little time available for testimony.
However, he avoided jail time for his testimony, and was instead sentenced to six months of house arrest, 1,200 hours of community service, three years of probation, and was given more than $10,000 in fines.
Finally, Bradley cited irregularities in the proceedings of the contest committee, including giving insufficient time for the review of testimony provided in written form by Taylor and Marshall's legal representation.
Separately, more than a year ago, a federal judge ruled that the First Amendment already gave her the power to quash a subpoena for testimony by a Times journalist, James Risen, in the prosecution of a former C.I.A. official accused of leaking about an earlier effort to disrupt the Iranian nuclear program.
No he said/she said this time, no need for witnesses, no need for testimony.
The trial was particularly notable because it featured for the first time the testimony of Joseph C. Massino, who became the first official boss of one of New York's five mob families to break the Mafia code of silence to testify for the government.
"I spent much time accumulating testimony and information for a report on the situation of the current prisoners as well as the accounts of those who had been detained and tortured in the past".
Mr. Leveson thanked Mr. Murdoch for his time in preparing testimony and documents for the judicial inquiry before adjourning.
