The Liverpool-based solicitors James Benson, who represented Mercer during his trial, declined to comment on any aspect of the appeals.
Even yesterday, many who had closely followed the trial declined to comment — some were lawyers representing clients entangled in investigations while others had friends or business associates involved in cases.
Dr. Gosnell, in a dark suit similar to one he wore throughout his five-week trial, declined an offer by Judge Jeffrey P. Minehart of Common Pleas Court to speak to the court before being sentenced.
Justice Leslie Crocker Snyder of New York State Supreme Court, who oversaw the six-month-long trial, declined to release the Marchiano brothers on bail pending sentencing, saying the jury had deemed them to be "leaders of a criminal enterprise" that defrauded many people.
"How can we in good faith encourage our young people to join the military," she said in an interview, "to serve our country when they're not being protected?" Private Chen's mother and father, both working-class Chinese immigrants who testified at the trial, declined to comment.
Pfizer, which makes an injectable form for hemophiliacs (and donated thousands of doses to the Crash-2 trial), declined to give sales figures or even discuss administering it to trauma patients because the Food and Drug Administration has not approved that use.
