I bet those wiretaps hold up just fine. This is lawyer bluster and bamboozle them with BS time.
From `Liar, Liar’, the movie
Fletcher: Your honor, I object!
Judge: Why?
Fletcher: Because it’s devastating to my case!
Judge: Overruled.
Fletcher: Good call!
So just how great a shock would it be for a leftist thug politician to beat the rap?
I’m not sure that technicality counts in the impeachment process. It might keep Blago out of jail, though, if this is anything more than a defense lawyer talking out of his Clymer.
Its like the movie “Liar, Liar” when Jim Carey loudly objects to the prosecution’s witness. The judge asks him why and he shouts “Because this is devastating to my client!!”
Don’t overlook the obvious; the PEOPLE OF ILLINOIS elected this jerk. It’s their baby; let them handle it. Hell, if he serves 5-10, they’ll REALLY love him. The Marion Barry effect....
It doesn’t matter, the impeachment panel can look at anything it likes whether legal or illegally obtained. They could admit rumors, hearsay, add up all his bad hair days, it don’t matter.
This isn’t a court of law, its a committee.
JB
It looks like Blags wiretapping is admissable federally but not in the state of Ill.
Federal wiretapping evidence admissible though barred by state law: evidence gathered in a joint federal-state investigation is admissible in state court if it complies with federal, though not state, eavesdropping law.
The Illinois Supreme Court has affirmed a 30-year line of appellate court decisions holding that evidence obtained in compliance with federal wiretapping law is not inadmissible in a state prosecution, even though Illinois's own eavesdropping law would prohibit it. The case is People v Coleman, 2008 WL 351682.
same excuse used by another paid-for Democrat named William Jefferson. D-LA used.
In each case, they plead there was no crime committed as info was not legally obtainable.
The Dems are consistent on this. Blago will use any excuse to not fess up.
Weak sauce. A terrible opening move. Gov. Zod is stalling until Barry’s knees shake.
Okay, Dems, for years you have beat us about the head and neck with Nixon.
Now your guy is proven to be far more corrupt, venal and ruthless, and he wasn’t previously inoculated by a sex scandal.
So it’s our turn to talk about the Culture of Corruption. Soon, counting Spitzer, you’ll have had two governors in as many years run out of town for severe moral lapses.
Okay. Now we know the tapes of the phone calls are devastating.
That’s the only message you can take away from a lawyer looking for loopholes.
If the evidence will kill you, kill the evidence.