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"Don't believe Fieger, jury told; Defense counters that U.S. is out to get him"

"Don't believe Fieger, jury told; Defense counters that U.S. is out to get him": Today in The Detroit Free Press, David Ashenfelter has an article that begins, "A federal court jury is expected this morning to start deciding the fate of controversial Southfield criminal lawyer Geoffrey Fieger and law partner Vernon (Ven) Johnson. U.S. District Judge Paul Borman is instruct the jury on the law at 10 a.m. before sending jurors into a room to decide whether the men broke the law when they recruited 64 people to contribute a total of $127,000 to John Edwards' 2004 presidential campaign and reimbursed them with law firm funds. In court Tuesday, prosecutors and defense lawyers spent five hours trying to bring jurors around to their point of view."

And The Associated Press reports that "Judge to give jury instructions in Geoffrey Fieger campaign finance trial in Detroit."

Full post as published by How Appealing on May 28, 2008 (boomark / email).