81.   The lawyer for Tadic claimed the tribunal had no firm legal grounds to try his client.

82.   The lawyers also claimed that the court did not have jurisdiction in some charges.

83.   The lawyers claimed the letters purportedly written by them on Law Society stationery to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change and British embassy officials were fakes.

84.   The lawyers claimed the statements were under duress.

85.   The lawyer also claimed he has found at least two instances where government prosecutors made arguments at trial that are contradicted by the newly discovered material.

86.   The lawyers also claimed that the papers were irrelevant to the Italian investigation.

87.   The lawyers claimed convicted burglar and rapist Noel Samuda should have taken his case to the Jamaican Supreme Court before appealing to the higher Court of Appeals.

88.   The trial was to begin last fall, but Lileikis did not show up for the opening session and his lawyer claimed he was too ill to appear.

89.   Their lawyers claim they risk compromising their defense in the upcoming trial.

90.   Their lawyers claimed the pair, and a friend from their days as campus radicals, were trapped by government agents who could not otherwise prove espionage.