Judge John R. Brownlee

When you evaluate the witnesses' statements, you are allowed to take into account if they lied about one thing, they might be lying about another thing.

It puzzled me then and puzzles me now, except that clearly the jury saw the snow globe as a symbol.

But the jury seemed to fix on the snow globes. Well, why would she give him this present? Why it was inscribed, it was a Christmas present, it sat at his house for months. If she was being played by him, you know, if she was the victim here, she was the damsel in distress, and he was the puppet master, why would she give him this nice present? You know, that's all I can think.

Yeah, I was surprised at how quick the verdict was. At the very least, I would have thought the jury would have gone through the wiretaps a little more carefully. But no, it was essentially a one-day deliberation.