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de·fen·dants

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  1. Judge Peter Cahill:

    The physical limitations of( the courtroom), the largest in the Hennepin County Government Center, make it impossible to comply with Covid-19 physical restrictions in a joint trial involving all four defendants beginning March 8, 2021 given the number of lawyers and support personnel the parties have now advised the Court are expected to be present during trial.

  2. Luke Ryan:

    Shifting costs to' users' of the criminal legal system creates extraordinary hardships for defendants and their families, in addition to erecting sometimes insurmountable barriers to re-entry, legal financial obligations require probation and parole officers to allocate substantial time to acting as collection agents that could otherwise be devoted to rehabilitation and public safety.

  3. Judge Juan Merchan:

    These defendants tarnished the building before it even opened and sullied the memories of those who jumped on 9/11, not for sport but because they had to.

  4. Matthew Schwartz:

    Judges will have to explain how small-time crooks in front of them were worse than the defendants in this case.

  5. United States:

    In an effort to implement their violent, radical ideology, the defendants studied some of the most deadly terrorist attacks in U.S. history, and used them as a blueprint for their own plans to kill American law enforcement and military personnel.

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