[lbo-talk] HealthSouth

[andie nachgeborenen]

Not bloody likely on either count. The US Attorney's
Office is staffed with top-flight lawyers, Supreme
Court clerks, emigres from the big law firms. And they
fight to kill, they don't prosecute unless they think
they can get a conviction, which they actually do
about 98% of the time. They like bringing down big
birds, nothing pleases them more than jailing a
corrupt politician or big time capitalist crook. 

I knows this from intimate first hand experience with
the USA's Office in Chicago, and similar reports from
NY and DC. (I wasn't an ASUA but I saw a zillion cases
tried by them, know lots of AUSAs, and now that I'm a
defense lawyer I see how they operate.) 

Therefore, it was a case of bad luck or insufficient
evidence. OJ wsa obviously guilty too, but the
evidence was not beyond a reasonable doubt. (That was
a state case, but the point is that "obviously guilty"
isn't the standard for conviction. It's "beyond a
reasonable doubt." I don't knwo the evidence in this
case, but that is supposed to be a high standard. If
you can afford good lawyers, you can make ita  high
standard,

jks

--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:


> Since the guy was pretty obviously guilty, that
> suggests
> incompetence -- or a lack of will -- in the federal
> prosecutor's office? 
> 
> 
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:23:45 -0700 (PDT)
> >From: andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>  
> >Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] HealthSouth   
> >To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> >
> >Probably the jury didn't find the evidence
> sufficient.
> >That's why they hire people like me, you know. Or,
> in
> >his case, former US Attorneys with people like me
> >working for them.
> >
> >--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> How did Scrushy get off?
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