Bryan said the laceration to Kern’s face was “superficial.”

“The prosecutor suggested incorrectly that you can solve the problems of the world,” Bryan said.

“A civilized society, when a member or a group of members such as yourselves the jury have the opportunity to kill or not we generally like to think that we have rules and there are things that we will do and consider before we make such a momentous decision. That is what we are doing here. And everybody here agreed to listen...even though we all agreed we would never get to the penalty phase unless you agreed beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant killed his entire family...It’s horrible.”

“I guess there must be a law against moving across country...I don’t know of anybody who has ever been sentenced...because they have moved from the east coast to the west coast which do create communications problems.”

“There aren’t a lot of people who can produce the quantity and quality of friends from back east who were willing to come from back east,” Bryan said.

“Relatives who are teachers and ministers, but because he didn’t, he was a teacher he taught during the school year and he taught many summer schools, but you are being to asked why he did not go back and forth all the time. Look at the volume of pictures seized from his apartment.”

“You have heard from many hard working teachers who thought the world of Vincent,”

“And you are supposed to ignore what they say. I don’t know how that works out with the timeline people presented,”

“It isn’t a different human being that was Vincent Brothers,” Bryan said. “They described him exactly as the teachers described him,”

“On their side, superficial facial lacerations,” Bryan said.

“The entire presentation of the prosecutor was to try and create the burden of proof that does not exist. To make you think that you should start off with death in your mind and that I then have to move you somehow away from death and that is absolutely untrue. That is not my burden. There is no favorite. Death is not favorite. There is no assumption from death. I do not have to move you from death, hopefully, if you follow the law...It is your decision. It is sometimes subteranean me suggesting to you that you do not have to make this decision. And because this is sucha  horrible decision and such a horrible sent of facts it is comfortable to accept a theory of law that allows that permits us to avoid making that decision, but that is where we are. There is no presumption of death that I somehow have to superhumanyly have to move you away from. It is up to you. You have gotten some kind of rules that the prosecution has read to you...These are fairly concise and the judge did read them to you.”

“Let’s not forget the special arrangement he made in Marques’ school room,.. that is all stuff that can be considered mitigating.”

“If we are going to do a weighing process from the penalty phase...nothing I have said should be interpretted as anyone not recognizing the horrific nature of this crime,”

Bryan asked what the United States would be known for if archeologists studied us. “it isn’t art and it isn’t archetecture,”

“We are what we are because of things we are doing right now,” Bryan said. “That is what is so strange about this place. That is why more people try to get in here than any other place that ever existed. They don’t go to listen to Bethoven, they come here because of our system of our, because of our system of freedom,”