The lies and inconsistencies used by the defense of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles marked the trial held this week in El Paso, Texas.
While the attorneys insist on making visible Posada's lies first and then, probably next week, show the truths to the jury, the defense says that the accused was forced to make false statements under oath.
Regarding that, one of the federal attorneys, Jerome Teresinski, criticized defense lawyer Arturo Hernandez's attempts to make believe that Posada "had been besieged in the hearings by the immigration agents who interrogated him."
However, there is evidence that Hernandez himself seems afraid to listening to.
Taking some people by surprise, Hernandez denied that starting to reconsider the thousands of pieces of recordings and transcriptions rejected by district judge Kathleen Cardone before the trial could open a Pandora's box.
"In that case, I would have to analyze all that again and this trial would never finish," Hernandez toold Cardone. Legal experts said his statements could be an attempt to banish that possibility.
According to lawyer Jose Pertierra, during the last hearings attorney Teresinski chose, and made the jury listen to the lies that the terrorist said during the immigration interviews in April 2006.
According to U.S. law, it is necessary that the 12 members of the jury agreed on his guilt to pass sentence. If only one of the jury members hesitate, the case comes to nothing, he said
That is why some defense lawyers do as much as possible in court. For them, the legal action is mere drama, said Pertierra alluding to Hernandez' behavior.