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“We would never be here in Nepoleonic France,” defense attorney Anthony Bryan said, digressing into a history lesson.
“There is always the hint from those that worship authority...and make it comfortable for folks like you in your situation...It’s a necessity argument. One of the greatest prime ministers of England was William Pitt,”
He goes on to quote Pitt.
“Necesity is the plea...it is the crea of slaves,”
“No one here proposes freedom for Vincent Brothers,”
“We’re asking you to allow him to spend the rest of his life in prison,”
“And you have the record of a long life before you,”
“At the very worst, you have found that there was a horrible weekend in his life of 41 years, if you have no lingering down, but all the rest of that 41 years was honorable discharges... excellent bachelor’s degree, credential, mater’s degree, this is not a wreckage of the past...
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