Rusty Hardin Quotes (24 Quotes)

We are very proud of this company and believe they did nothing wrong.

This gives Andersen less than three days to present its defense. That doesn't leave much time to put on a defense, ... All I want is equal time.

There is no question that Harmon did what she thought was right. We just disagree.

What you will see is the most incredibly incompetent conspiracy if there was one,

The affidavit is sealed from everyone but the Wall Street Journal , the court and the government, ... We would just like to see what the Journal has seen.

We are still in negotiations and not close to agreement yet. Reports of an agreement being announced today are premature.

It's a gambit to deprive us of a witness ... and she would have been a dynamite witness. It's the most outrageous thing I've ever seen.

Does David Duncan establish there was a crime ... Absolutely, unequivocally, without a doubt, no. Are those the words of Rusty Hardin No, those are the words of David Duncan.

It is very unusual for a jury to be out nine days without it being a mistrial. You reach a stage in really long deliberations where it becomes coercive for the minority.

We want a trial right away but I can't predict what the judge will do.

out side-barred the government by 200 to one.

We think the video shows a lecture on what their policy is. We would've introduced it if they hadn't.

Once you throw a skunk in the jury box it's hard to remove.

That is not a crime, ... God help the man for having pled guilty...but that is not a crime.

It remains to me, in 30 years as a prosecutor and defense lawyer, the most polarizing case I've ever seen with jurors.

I have to smile with fondness for our system, that says that our highest court will look at legal issues no matter who the sponsor is.

It was totally within the discretion of the justice of the peace whether or not to allow the harvesting to be done.

There's no indication from any source that anybody thinks she did anything wrong.

Duncan thought what he was doing was right.

The reason there is no plea from Andersen is that the company didn't commit a crime,

I've rarely seen a case or set of facts that has so outraged people over a long period of time. I've tried ax murderers and I've never found the public as upset as this.

Justice rejected our latest response, ... It's reasonable to say that neither side will continue to talk to each other about a resolution.

Hardin Wednesday repeatedly tried to show that the government pressured Duncan to plead. At one point, Hardin pointed to prosecutors sitting to one side of the room. The real hammer in this case is held at this table, ... It's the prosecutors who will recommend if Duncan will get probation or serve no time.

He's very much a trial lawyer's trial lawyer.