In a 90 - minute closing argument, Christopher P. Conniff, a defense lawyer, told jurors that the case against State Senator Dean G. Skelos and his son, Adam, amounted to little
more than distractions,
snippets of conversations taken out
of context, and self - serving lies from two central witnesses.
More than simply requesting the same data the way any other scientist would do they wanted every last bit
of paper that a thought might have been jotted down on, every impromtu
snippet of conversation ever uttered even every thought if they could have gotten it.