[snopercod]

Sur-prahze, sur-prahze!

[cinFLA]

The SacBEE story this morning ran two interviews with jurors. One, a 38 yo real estate broker, was glad for the reversal. She got ONE paragraph! The other, a 22 yo female college student was outraged! She got SEVEN PARAGRAPHS!

[TexasCajun]

How much was he awarded on his counter-suit? I heard he got money for legal fees, but did not hear a figure.

[joebuck]

This is a really dishonest headline for this Article. The headline the "California Journal" creates for this article reads thus:

"Simon Suspects Democratic Jurors Tainted Fraud Verdict"

But when we read the article, what we discover is this:

"It could be possible," he said. "Occassionally, there are outlandish jury verdicts. Was this a politically motivated verdict?I don't know. But it is not founded on the facts."

Simon never said that he suspected politics played a part in the verdict. When directly asked about it, he basically said "anythings possible". This was a set up question designed to create a misleading headline.

[NormsRevenge]

DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists



GO SIMON

Bill Simon will be on KSFO560 at 810 AM PT

[liberallarry]

Fraud Verdict Against Simon Firm Thrown Out

If this article is correct - and I'll believe it is until I see evidence to the contrary - the Judge found

1) Simon was believeable in his claim that he entered into a multimillion dollar deal with a man without doing a background check which would have immediately revealed that man as a convicted felon.
2) Simon's concealment of his plan to charge 1.5 million was "sharp" business practice but not illegal. Inotherwords, it was quite legal to defraud Hindelang.

No wonder the Left despises the legal system.

[Hildy]

What I don't understand is why Simon does not either take out a one page ad in Major CA papers or put an ad on TV explaining what happened and then move on. His silence is deafening. The only ad I keep hearing is the one with Guilianni. It's old and it's getting annoying.

[WOSG]

And he said they identified one juror who was active in Democratic politics and had strong feelings about the court case. "In many ways, she apparently drove the conversation,"he said. "How big a part of [the verdict] it is, I don't know." Morrissey did not reveal the identity of the juror and he said the lawyers did not interview her. But during the juryselection process, he said she described herself as a "politically active" college graduate student. He said she had experience on ballot measure campaigns and she assisted a college professor working on the recent Democratic reapportionment process.

How many female college students were there on this jury ... so this same woman was the one who the Sac Bee gave all the colmun space for??

And she just happened to know the review judge was a Wilson appointee?

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Furthermore, I have it on good authority that the plaintiff's attorney, Harland Braun, is a longtime DemocRat power player who has also represented Henry Waxman and Howard Berman (not to mention his other high-profile client, Robert Blake).

[cake_crumb]

"Simon spoke with the magazine before a Los Angeles judge Thursday overturned the jury's unanimous finding that William E. Simon and Sons defrauded a former business partner, who also turned out to be a convicted drug dealer"

Of COURSE it was politically motivated. This IS New Democrat, party 'politics' - i.e.: manufacture some bogus charge to throw them in a bad light at least long enough to lock the election - we're talking about.

[middie]

I am not in fear of my stong and dedicated Republican credentials when I suggest that such an argument is absurd. The Democrats, as unworthy as some of them may be, are not responsible for all the world's ills. If the case at trial was flawed by a judge's faulty instructions and rulings on evidence, or if the jury's verdict was based upon inadmissible evidence or improperly allowed counsel argument then it becomes the appellate court's duty to reverse it.

There is no Democrat or Republican methodology to the trial of a lawsuit or any of a trial's components. That is mere hyperbole and fervent wishful assertion. Is there political mileage to be realized by tagging the trial as political???? Well then, by all means do so.. How juvenile and desperate can a political candidate and a party be? That rhetorical question answers itself by this claim.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Check back in when you get a chance!

[Saundra Duffy]

Hanky panky, all right! Go, Simon!!!!!!!

[ladyinred]

LOL This would not surprise me at all!