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.
Not exact matches
He captures
snippets of their charming, often profane
conversations, cutting from one day to the next to create a slice -
of - life story that only begins to
take on a narrative aspect around the halfway mark.
The government has
taken snippets from
conversations, mainly from preliminary «get to know each other» meetings between Apple and the publishers, out
of context, Snyder said.
Taking snippets of overheard
conversations and recording these in his notebook, each title or phrase is then lifted and used when it seems to best fit.