Defense: Regan could not have succeeded with charges

(CNN) -- When Defense attorney Jonathan Shapiro gave his opening statement Monday in the Brian Regan espionage trial, he offered explanations for many things federal prosecutors had emphasized in the previous half hour.

Shapiro questioned what evidence the government had found on Regan's home computers and why it took the FBI several months to analyze it.

He talked about his client's vivid imagination, the book Regan supposedly was writing on mind travel and the battalion of toys Regan had classified on his computer.

Shapiro said he was planning to call two witnesses who would say the information in question can be found on the Internet and would not have harmed the United States.

Shapiro added that even amateur astronomers could track U.S. satellites with a pair of regular binoculars.

Shapiro summed up his defense by saying it simply wasn't feasible his client would try to "play spy."

"He had about as much of a chance to succeed as Xeroxing money and trying to pass it," Shapiro said.

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