Comments on: Scooter/Stewart Similarities

By: Jerri Lynn Ward

Jerri Lynn Ward — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:43:42 +0000

As an attorney, I am very concerned about a trial and verdict that elicits jury reactions like this. It appears to me that this was rank legalism as opposed to justice.

By: Eric Zucker

Eric Zucker — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:22:23 +0000

The lesson is clear. Never, ever, ever fail to exercise your right recognized in the fifth amendment not to give information that can be used in a criminal proceeding against you–even if a judge claims you don’t have that right in front of a Grand Jury or he claims that his offering you limited immunity overcomes your fifth amendment rights. Had Libby gone to jail for contempt of court for not answering questions put to him in front of the Grand Jury he’d have spent much less time in jail than he now faces and he’d be out by now. He’d also have a great deal smaller legal bill.

How much more evidence do we need? Our government is run by a corrupt armed gang whom we trust at our peril.

By: Cynic

Cynic — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:05:34 +0000

Where a prosecutor could never hope to prove his case in a court of law, he goes looking for other charges. He manufactures crimes ….

So after the Duke Lacrosse business, the Mexican border prosecution of the guards and now Libby’s trial what are we foreigners to make of the US legal system’s failure to protect its citizens from despotic behaviour?

Who do we look to now?