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Posted on 08/11/2005 10:28:53 AM PDT by WKB
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They will all go free. This trial was rigged from the start.
I think you are on to something there!!!
This article doesn't explain the half of it. My Vb Post does not show their article on line, but here goes from today:
This jury has thus far requested from the judge (Wingate)
1. permission to go to the barbershop and for the ladies to get their hair done
2. one juor has asked for a muscle relaxer
3. one juror refused to participate in discussions or to examine evidence (the foreman has since given the judge SEVERAL similar letters about other jurors taking the same position)!
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"...but prosecutors think the defense team is manipulating the jury."
Gee...ya' think? lol
After reading this article, there is absolutely no question what is going on.
Not that this jury is in need of any influencing...
"1. permission to go to the barbershop and for the ladies to get their hair done
2. one juor has asked for a muscle relaxer
3. one juror refused to participate in discussions or to examine evidence (the foreman has since given the judge SEVERAL similar letters about other jurors taking the same position)!"
Good Lord!
Don't that beat all...
For what it's worth, word on the street amongst lawyers in downtown Jackson is that (1) everybody will walk; (2) diaz will walk, but they'll get Minor on some charges; or (3) there will be a mistrial.
I'm placing my bets on the mistrial right now.
I'm placing my bets on the mistrial right now.
I'm betting on you!
"I'm betting on you!"
That would make two of us!
He is a brilliant, young attorney, isn't he? ;o)
Watch me be totally wrong. I'm not the best oddsmaker, y'know.
Just in case anyone else is as clueless about this as I am...
Paul Minor, a Mississippi lawyer, has been indicted in federal court for an act that the government deems corrupt: guaranteeing and partially paying a $75,000 loan to a judge's former wife. The judge in question, Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Oliver E. Diaz Jr., did not participate in any case involving Minor after the loan was guaranteed, but the government contends that Justice Diaz repaid the favor by joining a unanimous decision that benefitted Minor's father, who was a defendant in a libel case.
Mr. Minor, a former president of the Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association, contends that the United States attorney here, Dunn Lampton, a Republican, singled him out for prosecution for political reasons, because he is a big contributor to Democratic candidates and a vocal opponent of efforts to limit injury awards.
Watch me be totally wrong. I'm not the best oddsmaker, y'know.
Not only that you're talking to your self again
Just in case anyone else is as clueless about this as I am...
And you are just across the river!
Thanks
it has been a LONG week. (sigh.)
"it has been a LONG week. (sigh.)"
LOL!
TGIF, bourbon.
Have a very restful weekend. ;o)
It's been a wonderful week here in paradise for us.
Went to Gulfport and met gulfcoast6 and his family for dinner.
What a beautiful drive down Hwy 49 and back. Even stopped off and drove thru Mt. Olive.
It sounds like you had a very lovely time.
I love to drive the back roads of MS.
The countryside is just beautiful.
We have a lot of fir trees out here.
But, I miss the piney woods of MS.
If I weren't anxious to get to Meridian,
or running late to catch the plane,
I'd drive Hwy 80 to Meridian, instead
of taking the interstate.
I love driving (or riding) everywhere here, except downtown by the river which is only at 4.2 feet right now!
We need rain.
Even the grass is turning brown.
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