(Lily Chin and activist Helen Zia, Judge Charles Kaufman)
"These weren't the kind of men you sent to jail...You don't make the punishment fit the crime; you make the punishment fit the criminal." - Judge Charles Kaufman (Tajima)
"Gentlemen, I am of the opinion that the defendants in this case were undercharged. The elements of first-degree murder are here. First degree murder. There was more than enough time for the blood to cool, to have gone home and thought about this. He did not go home. He took his bat and he chased around Highland Park and he found Vincent Chin. I say to you gentlemen that there was willful, deliberate, premeditated killing of a human being." -Judge Thomas Bayles (Weingarten)
"How can you commit murder and get away with nothing? I never committed a crime in my life. Does that mean I could kill and get away with it?" -Vikki Wong, Chin's fiancee (Ho)
"Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz were charged with second-degree murder but plea bargained down to lesser charges of manslaughter." (Moyers)
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"This is injustice to the grossest extreme. I grieve in my heart and shed tears in blood. My son cannot be brought back to life, but he was a member of your council. Therefore, I plead to you. Please let the Chinese American community know, so they can help me hire legal counsel to appeal, so my son can rest his soul." - Lily Chin, in a letter to the Detroit Chinese Welfare Council (Zia 64)
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