The reports from the courtroom of the trial of Aaron Hernandez where the evidence has concluded and the jury has been deliberating since last Tuesday is that when the jurors are not in the room Hernandez is in an upbeat mood, smiling and rather enjoying himself. I would guess that he feels the jury’s delay…
Author: mtc9393
Hernandez Update:
The days started out (I’m following the tweets) with the judge having the prosecutors, defense counsel, Hernandez and two jurors (one at a time) at the side bar for a conference. It is because two jurors reported that a television news truck followed them as they went on their way home last night. I assume…
Hernandez: An Uneasy Sleep
Aaron’s Hernandez’s jury’s question had to have made the prosecutors toss and turn in their sleep, if they slept at all. As best I can tell it asked the judge according to this report: “questions to clarify two weapon and ammunition possession charges Hernandez faces in addition to the murder charge. Hernandez is charged with…
Why Can’t The United States Be More Like Israel?
I wrote the other day how the Wall Street Journal complained that Obama was not helping Israel and the Sunni nations in their fight against Bashar al-Assad the leader of Syria. That got me wondering. What is it that Israel is doing in the fight to remove Assad. It certainly hasn’t put any of its…
One and Dumb
I did not watch one game of the March Madness. Nor did I watch any college basketball games during the year. As I noted previously, the term college basketball at the March Madness level is an oxymoron. The players on the teams that go to the top of the heap aren’t college players. The freshman…
It Wasn’t Just John Connolly!
The Wall Street Journal the bastion of conservative opinion in the United States has taken up the torch for Scooter Libby. In an editorial opinion on Tuesday, April 7, “The Libby Injustice” and in an op-ed “The False Evidence against Scooter Libby” it accuses Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzpatrick of refusing to provide exculpatory evidence…