1. Breyer said that cases of terrorism or other special circumstances might require a form of preventive detention that is not justified in the ordinary case.
2. But if his tumultuous trial proved anything, it was that his is not the ordinary case.
3. But this was not an ordinary case of Mom and Dad wanting to see who they brought into the world.
4. Every day in ordinary cases, defendants avoid the risks of trial by accepting deals.
5. In an ordinary case, the two Florida circuit judges would have committed no error by following it.
6. In an ordinary case, the law might be interpreted on the side of the prosecutor even without clear evidence of a crime.
7. In any ordinary case, no one would get to sit on a jury if he or she was as familiar with the evidence as the committee is today.
8. In ordinary cases, while grand jury proceedings are closed to the public, witnesses are rarely held in jail.
9. Indeed, if I were a juror in an ordinary criminal case, I might very well vote to convict faced with these facts.
10. Indeed, in an ordinary case the circuit judges would have been required to follow it.