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A NOVEL DEFENSE: MY CLIENT DIDN?T TAKE THE WHOLE BRIBE: HE ONLY TOOK A LITTLE! ?The jury sitting ?

By Glenn Reynolds

A NOVEL DEFENSE: MY CLIENT DIDN’T TAKE THE WHOLE BRIBE: HE ONLY TOOK A LITTLE! “The jury sitting in judgment of City Councilor Chuck Turner began deliberations yesterday after a final bizarre twist in the trial ? the accused pol?s lawyer said in his closing remarks that his client took no more than $200 of an alleged $1,000 bribe, that FBI informant Ronald Wilburn pocketed the rest and that Turner never did anything for Wilburn.”

Somehow that reminds me of this: “We’re not going to break them,’ he added of colleges’ endowment funds. ‘We just want a little.’” They just want to wet their beaks a little. And then a little more.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 29, 2010 (boomark / email).