Victims' families are used and abused one more time. And it leaves us feeling helpless and hopeless, and we have no recourse. It doesn't erase the pain. The jury did an excellent job, and I just hope that this will give a message to the terrorists that we won't take this lightly as Americans, that there will be justice to the families when they attack us, that we're not just going to sit back and not do anything about it. We will take it to court and that we'll see justice is served.
Today is one of bitter sweetness.
And we hope the law will continue to be on our side. We were not able to overcome that. Very rarely does it work out in the benefit of the defendant. But we do plan to appeal and we'll move on. We'll be meeting with him to discuss various issues for his appeal.