Robert - Yes, in terms of the company town, I was a little taken aback when a lot of the posters were enthusiast about our chances in a jury trial, especially in DC. I'm like - "I don't think you folks are clear on the concept". But everyone is entitled to their opinion and maybe it will work out in the end. HH did a great job and I was hopeful we would win, but, as I said, he had a high mountain to climb.
Thanks for all your work reporting the trial. I had hoped to go a few times to get an in person sense of what's happening, but work commitments have stopped me from being able to do this and you and others were doing a great job to I don't think I missed much. I wanted very much to be there for the verdict in this very dramatic (at least for me) case that was 14 years in the making, but it looks like a mistrial. I was hoping for a scene like out of Paul Newman's "The Verdict" and have been in one trial (as a witness for D) where that actually happened.
It was a life or death situation where the case had gone on for years and the D had lost at every stage, had the "hanging judge" scheduled to hear the case - and this was the final stage - with bad things to happen to the D immediately after this appeal. This was it. But we had a very bad snowstorm and the judge could not make it.
So we had a new judge and at the beginning of the trial, the clerk bought out a stack of case records 3 feet high and put them in front of the judge. The case went on for a couple of hours with the Gov lawyer grilling the D and witnesses and it looked worse and worse. When the D testified the Gov attorney was, unjustifiably, to the point of harassment, very tough on her and she cried repeatedly on the stand. Finally, just before I was to testify, the judge suddenly grabbed some of the files in hand and looked out at the court room and exclaimed "You know, I reviewed the record before trial. This whole case is Bull Sh. - case dismissed.!!" There was a stunned silence in the court room for a few seconds and then the whole place erupted like you had won the World Series and the Superbowl all at once.
But it looks like in our case we are not even going to make the Wildcard.
I feel as strongly in this case as I did in the one above that we are the victims of an injustice and a theft on a massive scale - that this trial has made so obvious that its hard to believe otherwise. But in the jury's defense, I will say that its so complicated that even most of the judges appeared not to understand some of the issues.
Maybe, on retrial, we will get the same judge as when I was a D witness and she can declare the whole Government's case BS.
Nats
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