[Calpernia]

But legal expert Michael Fee, a former federal prosecutor and now a partner at top Boston law firm Ropes & Gray, says the claim may now be moot.

The problem? Prosecutors would have been looking for judge Sim Lake, who presided over Lay’s conviction in May, to make a simple “order of restitution” at the sentencing hearing in October. That would have forced Lay to pay money back to victims directly.

Now, says Fee, that hearing, and that order, won’t happen.

“He doesn’t get sentenced any more, so the order of restitution cannot be imposed,” said Fee yesterday.

Other lawyers yesterday added that Lay’s early death would further lead to his six convictions being extinguished in the eyes of the law.

It looks like he really did cheat justice.

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Someone posted a thread here last night asking how do we know Lay is really dead. That thread got kitty litter all over it.

Two questions:

1) is the death verified?
2) is this proven to be a non induced death

[wideawake]

The CO coroner's office has issued a death certificate and has stated that the cause of death was a coronary caused by an arterial blockage.

Unless one is a whacked-out conspiracy theorist, that should be good enough.

[COUNTrecount]

http://www.kenlayisalive.org/

You knoe that someone would do this.