Ed Parkinson Quotations

If this was indeed an accident, we don't think there would have been any reason for him to have within two hours of the incident tell one version to the sheriff and change it within a couple of days.

We'll give her immunity and ask her some fact questions, that's all we want. We know what she said and we want to put her on the stand to see what she says now.

You know, when three innocent children are killed, there's no answer, there's no logic, so there's no way to explain it anyway.

We plan to call Amanda Hamm, period. When she gets on the stand we plan to ask her questions about what happened, what she knew, what went down. We won't know until then whether she will answer the questions.

We don't have a lot of physical evidence that you would have in a stabbing, shooting, that sort of case. This is a difficult circumstantial case, but we believe the evidence is on our side.

The facts won out and the three little kids got justice today, I think.

We would be put in a position to prove something we don't believe and never believed happened.

We have evidence ... that showed they thought about it, planned about it, talked about it.

These were three young children who were as innocent as can be, and it's our job to do justice for them.

The three little kids got justice today. It was a long trail to justice.

This isn't petty. This is a test they asked taxpayers to pay a lot of money for ... There shouldn't be any hiding anything here.

This isn't like it plunged into the lake. This rolled into the lake and there was plenty of time for him to get out and tend to business.

It will be all or nothing. There won't be any middle road.

It's gone the way I thought we wanted it to. I'm satisfied with the evidence that we got in and I'm hopeful that it's enough.

It's tough for the jury to come to a conclusion. I think they will come to one, but it's going to take awhile.

The judge basically said ... can't you guys get together and decide which ones really you can perhaps agree on? So we're delineating that down to a few statements.

I'm sure it's going to take a while; there's a lot of evidence. This is a circumstantial case, but I think that we've proven murder.

I just think those are two circumstances that they considered heavily.

His educated estimate is that she was in the water for at least 30 to 40 minutes. That differs substantially from what the defendants said. They said the car went under and it took maybe 10 to 13 minutes for the rescue people to get there.

The judge is indoctrinating the jury, telling them what to expect. Tomorrow, we'll be taking notes as to what each prospective juror is saying and what our sense is as to their fairness and their ability to be jurors.