Click on the links below to listen to the oral arguments presented to the Appeals Court on
November 10, 2005. The arguments by James C. Rehnquist take about 18 minutes. The arguments by assistant district attorney
Sandra Hautanen are about 21 minutes.
This press release coincided with the filing of the Motion for
a New Trial or Alternatively for Dismissal of the Indictments by attorney James C. Rehnquist in February 2004.
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``When
police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state
to set the record straight.''
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg writing for the US Supreme Court majority on a Texas
case on February 24, 2004.
"Because one of the main sources of our national
unity is our belief in equal justice, we need to make sure Americans of all races and backgrounds have confidence in the system
that provides justice. In America, we must make doubly sure no person is held to account for a crime he or she did not commit."
