11.   Defense lawyers also claim that some of the genocide accusations are politically motivated.

12.   Defense lawyers claim that Erik suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of a lifetime of abuse.

13.   Defense lawyers claim that if judges knew there were high-level informants providing information they might not have approved the intrusive electronic surveillance.

14.   Defense lawyers claim the brothers were physically, sexually and psychologically abused by their parents, and shot them out of fear.

15.   Fuhrman was no doubt exaggerating to impress a naive interviewer, as his lawyer has since claimed.

16.   Heather also gave a statement implicating herself in the crime, athhough her lawyer claims it was made involuntarily.

17.   His lawyers are claiming the report planted the information that eventually would go into his false confession.

18.   Her lawyer claims it was a mercy killing.

19.   His lawyer claimed that Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge, Idaho, brought McVeigh to his savage act.

20.   In a penalty trial, the lawyers could claim that the new evidence suggested that McVeigh might not have been a central player in the bombing.