Richard Durbin actually said...

"As a profession, lawyers, I think, have a special responsibility in that regard."

"He would not be alive today, were it not for his attorney, who begged him not to give up at the very end."

"We are reviewing that now. In fact, this Judiciary Committee recently took up a bill that I have worked on with my Republican colleagues on the issue of mandatory minimums."

"In our view, it was preferable to have a world in which it was the courts that would ultimately have the authority."