Retrial Quotes

We will encourage him to stay, regardless of the personal hardship he would be put through (by a retrial). - Rolf Breuer

We don't want that to happen yet, until Judge Priest has an opportunity to rule on pretrial motions. - Dick DeGuerin

We believe Gary Hall is key to this case . . . and we have a desperate need in this case to conduct our (pretrial) investigation. - Robin Lord

This is harmful pretrial publicity. It's all over the front page. The way the court can remedy it is to grant a change of a venue. - John Pecchia

There's going to have to be a retrial. This was clearly at some level important testimony. The safest thing to do would be to grant a retrial. - Tai Park

The solution, I think, is bail reform having some people released through the pretrial release program, which we don't have... There should be some place to keep your lesser (offenders), your public drunks and your thieves. - Tommy Thompson

The government is either going to consent to a retrial because the jury verdict was tainted by potentially perjured testimony or the government is going to have to explain to the court why the prejudiced testimony was harmless -- in other words, that the testimony did not influence the jury's verdict. - Tai Park

The defendant has also not shown that moving his case will enable a jury to be chosen that has not heard all of the same pretrial publicity that a Stanislaus County jury has heard. - Dave Harris

The community has changed, but the hate for Castro hasn't. The Cuban-American community has evolved from what it was even five years ago, but in the interests of justice and so the decision of the jury isn't questioned, it would be better to have the retrial somewhere else. - Sergio Bendixen