Word: denvir
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Theodore Kaczynski's lawyers are still burrowing through the 1,400 lbs. of records the government gathered during the 18 years it spent hunting for the Unabomber. "This case is the largest, the biggest, the most complex case ever filed in this district," federal defender Quin Denvir told U.S. District Court Judge Garland Burrell Jr. at a pretrial hearing last Friday. But prosecutors made it clear they had found what they were looking for--proof that they had the man responsible for killing three people and injuring 23 others in 16 bombings around the country. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Cleary...
...biggest change is likely to be one of perception. "I don't think it will open up the legal floodgates, but it may open emotional and political ones," said Sacramento attorney Quin Denvir, who currently represents three inmates on death row. "In the past, jurors thought that if they sentenced someone to death, they'd never really get it. Now everyone in the system will see that the death penalty means the state will actually gas a person. Before it was more theoretical than real. Now the theory ends and reality begins...