As I read the indictment, ... I really wonder whether this is not the time for the government to simplify the burden on the jury by abandoning some of these counts.

There was a time when the crime itself determined the sentence. It used to be if someone is convicted of premeditated murder, the state said the punishment was death, ... That is no longer the case.

We realize we're plucking you out of the mainstream of your lives,

is really irrelevant.

I try to put myself in the position of a juror,

This court is not a vehicle for public declarations,