King loved crooked medical executives
Scrushy attorney invokes MLK Jr.
Apparently, Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream was that Richard Scrushy should be found innocent. I did not know that. And you think I'm kidding:
With his voice rising to a crescendo, Gray gave the final words from the defendants in this now seven-weeks-long public corruption trial. He implored federal jurors to "fulfill Dr. King's dream and fulfill that old song!"
"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty we're Free at last!" Gray sang out.
Testify! Unlike your client!
posted by Mac @ 6/16/2006 09:14:00 AM
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I occasionally have people tell me I should go to law school. I spent four years on the debate team in high school and I really enjoy public speaking.
But good God, I don't think there's ever a circumstance where I could actually stand in front of 12 people, some of them black, and actually utter those words. I'd die of humiliation before I got through the first "free."
Mac, I've been meaning to offer to send you a HealthSouth beer huggie I found in a kitchen drawer. I can't think of anyone I'd rather give this bit of Scrushy memorabilia to.
Sounds great... Drop me an email.
Again, those actually in attendance would have noted that it was prosecutor Steve Feaga who first quoted Dr. King in the government's closing the day before. Mr. Gray was responding to Feaga.
Um... Mr. Sock Puppet, the defense closes before the prosecution.
What gets my is that Scrushy and company actually think these tactics will work. Remeber the "Richard Scrushy Ol' Time Gospel Hour." That was about as lame as it gets. This is no different.
Mac:
Had you actually been there, you would know that the Prosecution went first. Feaga went first for the PROSECUTION on closing, the defense then closed, and Franklin then presented an additional amended close for one hour.
If you can't speak from direct experience, at least read the newspaper accounts before you announce your ignorance to the world.
Only the defense team started the King stuff at the beginning of the trial -- and was told to stop.
What's it like being a sock puppet, anyway? Does Siegelman's hand tickle your prostate?
Regardless of who started it, the notion that a jury deliberating on Scrushy's culpability would have an opportunity to fulfill Dr King's dream is ludicrous and shameful.
Does Siegelman's hand tickle your prostate?
I will never shake hands with Don Siegelman ever again...
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