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The following things were said by Daniel Petrocelli (Goldman family attorney)
at the civil trial, January 22, 1997:

"I think we would agree, whatever your ethnic, racial, cultural background is, there isn't any loss greater than a parent losing a child. That loss is no less if a child grows into a young man....that is the love and pride that Fred Goldman will have only in memory."

"He will never see the beaming look of satisfaction on Ron's face as Ron might have ushered him through his restaurant. He will never sit down with Ron at a Fourth of July barbecue or Passover Seder, or a birthday party."

"He will never see again the smile on his son's face.

Fred has lost all of that and infinitely more forever, and his life will never be the same."

"His life will never be the same. I can't, you can't, give him back his son."

"There was a sixteenth-century poet, named Guillaume Du Bartas, who best expressed a relationship between a father and son in a few simple words. Let me read them to you.

'My lovely living boy,
My hope, my happiness,
My love, my life, my joy.'

Fred Goldman's lovely, living boy is no more."