Sunday, December 4, 2011
Hordiculous
There really needs to be a word that combines ridiculous and horrible. Ridorrible? Horriculous? Whatever you call it, it was bountiful Friday at the robocall trial, with the defense calling somewhere between nine and 18"character" witnesses* to testify to the general awesomeness of Ehrlich's campaign manager, Paul Shurick. How their platitudes could be material to the facts I can't imagine, but anyway, the beacons of virtue hand-picked to testify included executive director of the Maryland Coal Association, a firefighter, and Michael Steele, now best known for presiding over the Republican party as it wooed donors with bottle service at a bondage club. Oh, and also former governor Marvin Mandel, now 92 years old and best known as MD's first (and only) convicted-felon governor, who spent 19 months in jail on various fraud charges. And Schurick testified for his own defense, blaming it all on his underling. "I recall saying to Julius, 'I’m paying you $16,000 a month, give us a plan." Adding to the ridiculorribleness, beloved dykon Jayne Miller broke her ankle on a city shitty sidewalk while covering the case. And BTW and p.s., after testifying that he had never heard the robocall, on Friday a special agent basically proved that he had. Then he admitted it. D'oh!
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The reason Shurick's lawyer is parading this cast of big-named clowns that have nothing to do with the case in front of the court is he is conveying a very strong message that Mr. Shurick is a man with friends in very high places. Mr. Shurick might even be found guilty but I will doubt he will be fined, punished or even have to do one hour of community service. No judge is willing to compromise their career and pension. by exacting justice.
Punishment is for those without friends in the government.
Hm, there's a theory. Except that none of these people would have anything to do with the judge's pension or career. I just can't imagine how the clown parade could *not* backfire-- how pissed would you be if you had to sit on that jury, missing work or school or whatever, to have to listen to that?
Or maybe it was just the machinations of an extreme narcissist. Schurick's thinking could have been "All these people think I'm honest and wonderful, surely the judge and jury should feel the same." The business of blatant violation of the law reduced to a 'faux pas' was sort of the cherry on the ice cream sundae when it comes to creative legal defense tactics.
I'll have to try some of that next time I'm in traffic court.
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