Kendall Coffey Quotations

On the other hand, it doesn't eliminate the ability of people to proceed against individuals such as Cardinal Law.

If this child had come ashore in Mississippi, he would have had his asylum hearing by now.

He's certainly an enemy of Castro but not the people of this country.

The overwhelming weight of federal appellate decisions around this country would have given Elian Gonzalez an absolute constitutional right to an asylum hearing five months ago.

The 11th Circuit made it clear they would not have decided this case in the same way but they had to stand back to the INS' discretion.

That's the law, but the jury has 12 human beings on it.

We call upon the INS to take no precipitous actions between now and the time this appeal is heard because we think it is so clear that the rights of child have to be heard without further disruption, without further dislocation, without further trauma of any sort.

We believe he misappropriated the opportunity of a company's lifetime by seizing the Consumer Guide transaction.

When you have two highly placed cooperators, it eases the prosecution's burden substantially. At the same time, when you're faced with officers who are trying a hear-no-evil, see-no-evil defense, your corroborator is bolstered because the hear-no-evil see-no-evil defense just doesn't strike jurors as common sense.

The government has a really difficult time getting people who are both in the radical Islamic community and reliable. Usually people like this don't come to the government voluntarily, and usually they don't come totally clean. It takes a thief to know a thief.

To an amazing extent, careless e-mailing has become one of the most frequent minefields in civil and criminal discovery. Case after case, ranging from criminal prosecutions to sexual harassment lawsuits, have been anchored on careless e-mails.

Right now they're stigmatized as undesirables and told they're not wanted in Cuba. They're very much wanted here, and we hope they'll be allowed to return and are counting on the U.S to use its best efforts to help them get back where they belong.

As a general proposition, anything that smacks of manipulating studies or data is a potential bombshell. It's the rare case where a cover-up is of no concern to a jury. The implications range from only somewhat harmful to potentially devastating.

This is a matter of momentous importance not only to this child, to this community, but also literally to hundreds of thousands of refugees who seek admission in this country.

None of that is provable. He's not charged with any of that.

It was one of the most disgraceful moments for our system and our government that I can recall. It was an hour of shame...of betrayal of a child.

It was one of the most bone-headed blunders ever seen in a high-profile federal case.

They will obey the law. They will not obstruct, they will not interfere with the law under any circumstances.

The judge found that any view that the bridge was not part of the United States ... was just flat out wrong.

If you're a government employee, e-mail is considered public property.

In the future it should be that the law means you are in the United States if you are within its territorial waters.

The essence of our position is (that) this is for a judge to decide when you're talking about what constitutes the United States. And, for sure, the old Key West bridge is part of our country and part of Florida.

The (Immigration and Naturalization Service) has never looked at the health and psychological care issues of this child. It is high time that they did so before they commit themselves to some precipitous action which could have (irreversible) consequences.