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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.