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Posted on 07/14/2002 6:05:52 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
So is that another way for the DMN to say he's going to
get back to his stirring up trouble in the black community
in Dallas again? Sheesh!
Al Lipscomb and John Wiley Price. I've seen dirty tag team
wrestling matches with a lot more class.
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I guess he has made a miraculous recovery.
Let's hope they try him again, but if the trial is in Dallas, his odds of conviction are non-existent.
...and keep the "dream" alive.
I could understand if SOME of the charges had been dropped or overturned - but not all of them.
Was this Judge an appeals court judge or what? If so, I didn't know his case was on appeals. I wonder if Ron Kirk figures into this at all?
Lipscomb isn't out of the woods yet. WFAA reported that he could still be retried on all of the 68 or 69 charges. Somehow I doubt if that will happen.
I remember that when I was growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, we had a couple of ministers whose names I can't recall, who were part of the SCLC, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference--Dr. King's umbrella organization--who did NOTHING but foment hate and division every time they got in front of a microphone.
"Ministers of the gospel," indeed. The satanic gospel of racial strife.
I saw some of this on WFAA-TV and I'm here to tell you that something fishy is going on. Lipscomb said in a TV interview that he received a call from a Judge one night telling him that the 60 some odd charges of fraud and corruption had been overturned and that he was a free man.
I could understand if SOME of the charges had been dropped or overturned - but not all of them.
Was this Judge an appeals court judge or what? If so, I didn't know his case was on appeals. I wonder if Ron Kirk figures into this at all?
Lipscomb isn't out of the woods yet. WFAA reported that he could still be retried on all of the 68 or 69 charges. Somehow I doubt if that will happen.
I know. It does all seem so weird that all of a sudden he's been sprung. I have
no idea what might be brewing here.
From the article:
But adults were more familiar with Mr. Lipscomb. And the older they were, the more they seemed to be tuned in to his legacy. Helen Sorrells, a retired social worker, was volunteering at a fund-raiser for Mount Olive Lutheran Church, next door to James Madison High School. She recalled a meeting 25 years ago at her children's junior high. "He's worked this area years and years and years," she said. "I think that among some of the older generation, they cannot help but look back and see he's been such an influence on public policy in a positive sense."
Huh? This doesn't sound like the same Al Lipscomb I know. I think that the
DMN's LIBERAL bias must be showing here?
Kirk, Lipscomb, and Price. Would you play poker with these characters?
You seem to be singularly uninformed - of course the verdict was appealed, and the conviction was overturned due to the change of venue (thus all convictions on all counts were reversed).
Brownie74 sayeth:
Lipscomb said in a TV interview that he received a call from a Judge one night telling him that the 60 some odd charges of fraud and corruption had been overturned and that he was a free man.
I could understand if SOME of the charges had been dropped or overturned - but not all of them.
Was this Judge an appeals court judge or what? If so, I didn't know his case was on appeals. I wonder if Ron Kirk figures into this at all?
Well here's what the article says is going on here:
Hmm?? Why is it I feel that they will decide that he has already served 27His conviction was overturned because the federal appeals court ruled that his trial had been improperly moved from Dallas to Amarillo. But the judges did not comment on the strength or weakness of the government's case. Prosecutors have yet to decide whether to appeal, conduct a new trial or drop the charges.
Mr. Lipscomb admits that he failed to properly report thousands of dollars of donations while he was a Dallas City Council member, but he denies that the donations were bribes.
The ambiguous nature of his vindication leaves some people with mixed feelings.
< snip >
U.S. District Judge Joe Kendall moved the trial to Amarillo, citing "significant media attention" and Mr. Lipscomb's status as "one of the most influential and well-known" leaders in Dallas' black community for three decades as key factors in his decision.
During the trial, witnesses said Mr. Lipscomb accepted envelopes stuffed with cash.
"It smells. We can't deny that," Scottie Allen, a member of Mr. Lipscomb's defense team, said during the trial. "But we always conceded the fact that he got some cash."
Mr. Lipscomb has consistently maintained that he got money from friends who wanted to subsidize his work and augment the $50-per-meeting pay that council members received.
He said that his work as an activist required him to accept confidential contributions to help support his family but that the "donations" bought no favors from him.
The jury didn't buy that argument and convicted Mr. Lipscomb on all 65 counts. He resigned from the council in February 2000. He was sentenced that April to spend 41 months at home wearing an electronic monitor bracelet.
Yes I am. That is why I am asking questions. I have bigger fish to fry than Al Lipscomb.
LOL! No, thanks. I'd rather take a tour of the Rattlesnake farm. I'd feel safer.
OK - I remember that now. I think they cited racial bias if he were tried in Dallas or something like that.
Interesting point. I watched every minute of the OJ trial from the freeway chase to the final verdict. I don't know that a change of venue would have mattered much. The "Dream Team" had the prosecution on the ropes throughout the trial.
I am not saying OJ is innocent but I don't see how anything but a not guilty verdict could have come down. Perhaps a Judge other than Lance Ito would have made a difference in the trial. That was one heck of a circus!!
Figures? And just what would you know about figures? Can you add them, subtract them, uglify them, or deride them? Seen any Sonny days lately?
My guess is that the political heat will be turned up not to retry poor Al because he's suffered enough already. He was forced to take those "confidential contributions" to support his family and just "forgot" to report them to the IRS.
If Kirk is elected, its more likely the government will pay Lipscomb millions of dollars to compensate for his "loss of freedom" while under house arrest.
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