Obama went even further after the Zimmerman verdict, expressing his identification not as leader of a racially diverse nation — or as the son of a white mother — but as a black man who remembers women clutching their purses tighter when he entered an elevator and being followed in department stores.
If your pronouncement that a piece of music is beautiful means no more than that you have felt a certain pleasure upon hearing it, then your verdict expresses your pleasure without saying anything about the music's capacity to please others.
An inquest verdict expresses no blame and is not binding on any other legal action.
Jerome Haig, one of Tanaka's attorneys, reiterated the claim following the verdict, expressing frustration that Anderson had denied repeated requests that Baca be granted immunity in exchange for his testimony.
The Rwandan government saluted the verdict but expressed dismay at the sentence.
Richard W. Beckler, the chief defense lawyer, spoke briefly with reporters after the verdict and expressed disappointment over the outcome.
Cyndie Aquilina, a social worker who volunteered as a jury consultant for the defense team, stood outside the courthouse after the verdict and expressed shock.
The verdict, though expressed in bad English, clearly manifested the intention and finding of the jury upon the issue submitted to them, and the court rightly gave judgment upon it.
According to the newspaper "Dawn," presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said that President Zardari was "concerned about the verdict and expressed the hope that justice will ultimately be done as the case passes through the subsequent stages in the U.S. judicial system".
Throughout the saga that has followed the Leeds University student's murder, the family has sought to stay out of the spotlight and, before Friday night's verdict, had expressed steady confidence in Italy's notoriously slow and backed-up legal system, saying that the multiple tiers of appeals were designed to arrive at the right verdict.
