Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., left, talks with Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, right, before the start of a speech by President Bush at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School for Science and Technology on Wednesday, August 29, 2007, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
William Jefferson, 7, is greeted by his second grade teacher Lisa Reynolds on the first day of school at Silverlake Elementary School, in Pearland, Texas, Monday, Aug. 27, 2007. (AP Photo/The Chronicle, Nick de la Torre)
OJ Simpson has used up the last get out of jail free card.
Legal scholars said some of the motions have a chance to prevail.
Sure they do. /s
Yes now for a hard question.
No Liberal corruption here? Give me a break! If the GOP had any guts and gonads, all these examples of Liberal graft and corruption would be exploited to the hilt.
Sure, Jefferson! You want to move the trial out of Northern Virginia where people are educated and upper income white folks live. You would much rather choose a jury from a poorly educated and black Washington, D.C.
ping
anytime a Republican misspeaks, taps their foot in a bathroom stall they are hounded and attacked by the media. Democrats can get caught in actual federal crimes and be ignored. Didn’t a Senate aid once violate federal felony gun laws?? whatever happened?
D.C. - Mike Espy’s house of jury nullification!
Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) plays the Race Card
Attorneys for Freezer King Rep. William Jefferson, Democrat of Louisiana, filed motions in federal court on Friday asking the judge to throw out 14 of 16 charges against the Congressman. They also requested a change of venue from Northern Virginia to the District of Columbia.
[They maintain that] the government choreographed events, including changing the locale of a 2005 meeting in which a government informant gave Jefferson a briefcase with $100,000, to justify bringing the case in a jurisdiction friendlier to the prosecution. The brief said that the government wants to try the case in northern Virginia because the judicial district has a lower percentage of African-Americans than Washington, D.C does, and therefore violates the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection. Jefferson is African-American.
It gets better, overleaf.
In a display of legal parsification that would make the other William Jefferson (Clinton) proud, the attorneys moved to throw out charges based on a curious interpretation of a 1999 Supreme Court case [emphasis added]:
Quoting from a 1999 Supreme Court decision, Jefferson's legal team said that to win a bribery conviction, the government must show that a public official accepted something of value in return for an official act. But, they argue, none of Jefferson's alleged actions, including funneling $367,000 from the Kentucky company iGate Inc., to a business owned by the Jefferson family in return for the congressman's help winning contracts in Western Africa, are "official acts" of a member of the House of Representatives.
The government's contention that some letters to African officials were written on congressional stationary, arrangements for some his trips to Africa were made by his congressional staff and some meetings with officials at the Export-Import Bank, for example, listed Jefferson as a member of Congress, doesn't take away the major deficiency of the government's case: Helping American businesses with transactions in Africa isn't part of a member's official duties, Jefferson's motion says.
Nowhere, the Jefferson brief says, does the government accuse the congressman of casting a vote, introducing a bill, proposing a hearing or getting an appropriation - the activities that full [sic] within a member's official duties.
While there are rules that limit the amount of outside income a Congressman may receive (which it sounds as though Dollar Bill violated), it would seem that the contention is that the Congressman's pursuit of filthy lucre is a hobby, or perhaps a lifestyle choice, and not an abuse of his Congressional office.
Only two legal scholars responded to the questionnaire because the third one strangled as the result of his head being so far up his as that he couldn't breath.
Not likely. Blank-O is and empty asshat for the Landrieux Family. If you can find the old live interviews watch closely. Blank-O is asked question after question, she is unable to answer ANY of them untill Mary L performs her crummy ventriloquism trick on her! LOL!!!
But cerially, President Bush must hate refigerators and freezers, cause he never even showed up at my house to clean mine after katrina, and he sent the FBI to clean up Billy Jeffs (D La.)!
LMAO!!!
Anybody have any doubt that William "Cold cash" Jefferson could find an OJ jury that couldn't spell 'DNA' if you spotted them the 'D' and the 'A'?
Well this will certainly raise the public’s confidence it their representatives in Congress, won’t it?
Sheesh.