"We have to look at it in light of the Judge'sdecision," Ho said.
"The misrepresentation was not malicious," Hoadded. "It was an attempt to secure for herselfwhat the justice system promised her and that is anew start."
Frank and Lat lambasted Shuchart's positionthat Grant had reformed since killing her mothernearly five years ago.
"We can't draw a clean and easy dichotomybetween who we are today and who we were in thepast," Lat said. "I'm no physics major but Ibelieve that time is a continuum."
Shuchart replied by calling Lat's arguments"metaphysical cheap shots."
Despite the hostility that characterized thedebate, members of the moderately-sized audiencesaid they enjoyed the discussion.
"They were at each other's throats, but that'sthe nature of the debate," said Ronald Newman, aCambridge resident