Conrad Black calls Judge Posner "Part of the Prosecution"
Conrad Black is presently serving a 6 and 1/2-year term for mail fraud and obstruction of justice for his operation of his former newspaper empire. His case is now under appeal, and Judge Richard Posner is one of two judges on the 7th circuit who is hearing the initial appeal. From the CBC (h/t to Brian Ferguson):
Fallen media baron Conrad Black had harsh words for the American judges hearing the appeal of his fraud conviction, saying they don't understand the case and sometimes acted like part of the prosecution.
Black made the comments in an e-mail sent to the Globe and Mail from the Coleman minimum-security prison where he has been serving his 6½-year sentence since March.
"As you will have noticed, [Judge Richard] Posner and [Judge Diane] Skyes had little understanding of the case and were, in a way that I am unfortunately familiar with, essentially part of the prosecution until the realization began to dawn that they didn't really understand the case," the Globe and Mail quotes Black as writing.
Category: Economics, Economics and Law, Media Posted on
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 8:00pm
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