tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post5232078670865415173..comments2024-03-12T21:13:06.850-05:00Comments on Legal Schnauzer: Responding to "Dixie" Readerslegalschnauzerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09619089628125964154noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-41703825058567608592008-01-07T14:58:00.000-06:002008-01-07T14:58:00.000-06:00Considering most jurors are sheep, jury instructio...Considering most jurors are sheep, jury instructions are IMO the most important thing in a trial and I spend hours working on mine. The bottom line is the jury does as it is told by the judge via instructions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-578971289312976342008-01-07T08:08:00.000-06:002008-01-07T08:08:00.000-06:00You hit the nail on the head with your explanation...You hit the nail on the head with your explanation of what happened in the Siegelman case. I saw it with my own eyes. Judge Fuller continuously used his discretion and power as the judge to turn that jury towards a conviction. It was such a shock to see. It seemed to me as if he was in colusion with the prosecutors. I am not ready to say that they absolutely had a colusion, but they sure seemed to be on the same team. What a sad time we are in in this country!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-28268827341913052742008-01-06T22:34:00.000-06:002008-01-06T22:34:00.000-06:00I can comment on how Rove or some Administration r...I can comment on how Rove or some Administration representative manipulated the jury -- it was done directly through the judge! People who want an appointment (let's say to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals) know how to follow instructions from their superiors, and they can manipulate their own sphere. For example, Wingate posted the indictments day after day, psychologically grinding the idea of guilt into the jury's mind. The Defense had no defense against that tactic. Certainly they were not allowed to put on their expert witnesses. Aside from the aspects mentioned by the Legal Schnauzer, the judge read the incredibly complex jury instructions aloud for 2 1/2 days. After the first 5 minutes, everybody in the courtroom was endeavoring to have an out-of-body experience to get away from his droning voice because, as all Americans know, the jury takes a copy of the instructions with them. Nay, not so with Judge Rat Vomit. Even Oliver Diaz, a Mississippi Supreme Court Justice, who was sitting near me, was flabbergasted that he sent the jury out without the instructions. He gave them a task equivalent to emptying the Gulf of Mexico with a slotted spoon. It would have been a joke except that the lives of three men lay in the balance of the judges' machinations. So . . . that's how an outsider influences the jury. He gives instructions to the judge and lets the judge fiture out how to do it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3669412675139526125.post-28800987847550975192008-01-06T20:56:00.000-06:002008-01-06T20:56:00.000-06:00“BUSH HAS TURN THE WHITE HOUSE INTO A DEN OF THIEV...“BUSH HAS TURN THE WHITE HOUSE INTO A DEN OF THIEVES”<BR/>President Bush, Vice President Cheney and their executioner Lieutenant Rove have disregarded the values so cherished by the Republican Party. Their ideology have been to channel millions of dollars to those party members who have pledged total absolute loyalty to the Bush administration. This includes creating/channeling campaign funds for their elections, making appointments of the undeserving and/or unqualified boot lickers to high Federal offices and awarding large military/government contracts to thousands of companies that are owned directly or indirectly by his supporters. Many of these contracting companies are sham organizations and/or have no accountability. <BR/><BR/>We in the “South Eastern States” have surely suffered the most from the presidency of Bush. We are facing a very serious dilemma; we have a new strain of government corruption that is immune to the antibodies of the justice system as defined by the constitution which incudes: (a) Election fraud, (b) political favors for illegal campaign contributions (large oil companies, Tobacco Companies, Gambling Casinos, etc.), ( c) corrupt Bush appointed U.S Attorneys that spend millions of dollars profiling high ranking Democrats so that their offices can be freed up for a Bush operative and (d) Bush appointed U.S. Judges that removes the threat of a political comeback by giving maximum sentences with appeal denials and highly restricted correspondence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com