cyrena, I’m no attorney either.

Congratulations by the way!

But I’ve covered enough criminal trials to know, when the accused defends himself with “it’s their fault” he/she is usually guilty. That’s the interesting thing about criminals. Their inability to accept personal responsibility for their situation is often the thing that leads them to getting caught up in a crime in the first place! Come to think of it, isn’t that what leads some folks to a career in politics?

Stevens fits the profile, but I’ll let the jury determine his guilt or innocence. Maybe in the final analysis he’ll just be found guilty of being really, really stupid. I mean the guy should have known long ago, just having his name linked with Bill Allen would lead to an investigation!

Poor Alaska ...

If Stevens is convicted there are prisons and there are prisons.  Convicted politicians along with white collar criminals are not assigned to ordinary every day prisons basically for their own protection.  While being locked-up and losing freedom can be wrenching, the prisons they go to, while not country clubs, are quite bearable.  They are house with their own ilk and have many amenities not found in hard core incarceration.  The problem is they know this and thus are willing to take a chance to make a few bucks.  Perhaps if such miscreants were assigned to normal prisons we would see much less occurrence of such illegalities.  I happen to know someone who was assigned to Allenwood Prison in Pennsylvania——he did quite nicely there and make some valuable friends.  Today, he lives quite well on the money he stole, which was invested and hidden from the authorities.

Stevens’ anger and insisting it’s all lies and plots by his enemies reminds me of another nasty, crazy, venal old man.

Give him an African accent and a Black complexion and you have…..ROBERT MUGABE!  It all sounds the same.

By Big B, October 17 at 9:30 am #

I am no attorney. But I do know that you never put the defendant on the stand, unless you are really desperate!

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I am. Depends on the defendant and the lawyer. And, ANYBODY on trial is desperate, even when they’re being tried for something they didn’t do. In fact, that’s when they’re the MOST desperate, and oftentimes, only hearing from the defendant him or herself will do.

Now that’s NOT what I think the case is here, (Stevens is desperately guilty, and belongs in jail for the rest of his life) but that’s just to say that there’s not a hard fast rule there, and most folks who do the arm chair stuff don’t really understand that.

Just another corrupt politician trying to whine and cry his way out of justice.  Ignorance of the law (or what you are or are not doing) is NO EXCUSE Senator!  At least that’s what they keep telling us regular Americans…Methinks he doth protest too much!

Yet another politician of hubris, screaming at the little man that it’s everyone else’s fault!  That is the way they go!  My only hope is that they put him under the jail!

This isn’t anything new. I don’t know why this shocks anyone. Corruption runs deep in Washington. How does everyone think we got into a $600 million bailout? This corruption isn’t republican or democrat it’s Washington as a hole. That’s what Washington is, A Big Asshole and each politician falls out one at a time. America grunt a little harder maybe we can flush a few more.

I am no attorney. But I do know that you never put the defendant on the stand, unless you are really desperate!

They used to tar and feather crooked public officials. Is it time to look back to those good old days?