Comments on: Grand Slam: Sen. Ted Stevens Found Guilty on All Seven Counts http://jonathanturley.org/2008/10/27/stevens-jury-reaches-verdict/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:51:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Buddha Is Laughing http://jonathanturley.org/2008/10/27/stevens-jury-reaches-verdict/#comment-27377 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:37:25 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=4859#comment-27377 In all honesty, the idea of pardoning this weasel would get me in a lather . . . normally. But in this instance, I don’t really care. Stevens attempt to come in under the pardon line is trumped by the raw damage he did to the GOP so close to election. Even more so since the moron ISN’T dropping out of his Senate race. Talk about the poster child for out of touch hubris. I think letting him skate on his time in a Federal country club is a small price to pay in furtherance of a Democratic majority in the Senate. The Senate Republicans have long been a part of the problem and Bush’s protectors/enablers. Anything to get rid of those clowns short of letting the Neocons and PNAC go free is fine with me.

]]> By: Jill http://jonathanturley.org/2008/10/27/stevens-jury-reaches-verdict/#comment-27275 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:13:59 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=4859#comment-27275 Update at 9:51 a.m. ET: Here’s the statement that McCain just issued through his campaign:

Yesterday, Senator Ted Stevens was found guilty of corruption. It is a sign of the health of our democracy that the people continue to hold their representatives to account for improper or illegal conduct, but this verdict is also a sign of the corruption and insider-dealing that has become so pervasive in our nation’s capital.

I didn’t realize McCain was such a master of irony.

]]> By: mespo727272 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/10/27/stevens-jury-reaches-verdict/#comment-27251 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:52:47 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=4859#comment-27251 Mike Spindell:

I read the jury reacted to the parade of tradesmen all working for VECO that spent weeks at the Stevens house and for whose services the good Senator was never billed.

]]> By: Former Federal LEO http://jonathanturley.org/2008/10/27/stevens-jury-reaches-verdict/#comment-27248 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:46:34 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=4859#comment-27248 Mike S. said: “I think that in any event Bush will pardon him after the elections.”

As I mentioned before, I think that is why Stevens wanted a speedy trial. The verdict was rendered soon enough for Mr. Bush’s signature on a pardon.

Mr. Stevens was hedging his bets and he will “win” one way or the other. I simply want justice served on a very corrupt politician.

]]> By: rafflaw http://jonathanturley.org/2008/10/27/stevens-jury-reaches-verdict/#comment-27245 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:09:04 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=4859#comment-27245 Jill,
I never did like Uncle Ted! He was a dirty old man!!

]]> By: Jill http://jonathanturley.org/2008/10/27/stevens-jury-reaches-verdict/#comment-27244 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:45:55 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=4859#comment-27244 rafflaw,

This is Uncle Ted! How can you say those things about him? WAAAAAA!!!!

]]> By: rafflaw http://jonathanturley.org/2008/10/27/stevens-jury-reaches-verdict/#comment-27238 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:09:36 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=4859#comment-27238 It couldn’t happen to a nastier, more corrupt person. I have to echo Mespo’s comments about the jury finding their own way to the truth, consiering the poor prosectution team.

]]> By: Patty C http://jonathanturley.org/2008/10/27/stevens-jury-reaches-verdict/#comment-27234 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:26:19 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=4859#comment-27234 177K – bargain at twice the price, BIL…!

What do you suppose the appeal will run?

]]> By: Buddha Is Laughing http://jonathanturley.org/2008/10/27/stevens-jury-reaches-verdict/#comment-27231 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:10:33 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=4859#comment-27231 Legal Fees

$114,000

Expenses

$63,000

Convicted eight days out from the election.

Priceless

]]> By: Mike Spindell http://jonathanturley.org/2008/10/27/stevens-jury-reaches-verdict/#comment-27223 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:16:49 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=4859#comment-27223 Mespo,
My guess is that Stevens testimony was so fantastical and probably so full of haughtiness that he succeeded in alienating the jury and convinced them of his guilt despite muddled prosecution. Is it cynical of me to think that the prosecutorial ineptness was somewhat intentional, given DOJ revelations? I think that in any event Bush will pardon him after the elections.

]]> By: Jill http://jonathanturley.org/2008/10/27/stevens-jury-reaches-verdict/#comment-27222 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:16:38 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=4859#comment-27222 Well this is right up there with getting kicked out of the Crystal Cathedral!

]]> By: mespo727272 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/10/27/stevens-jury-reaches-verdict/#comment-27220 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:46:34 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=4859#comment-27220 An amazing result given the ineptness of the prosecution team. Sometimes juries do what we tell them not to do and reach the natural justice of the case, the flaws in evidence be damned. Maybe that’s what happened here. As a lawyer, I hope not. As a citizen, I hope so.

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