UPDATED, revised. After the verdict was read and people left the courtroom the KELO camera man approached the bench to basically ask the judge if it was okay to tear down the equipment. The judge says to him, “Well tried. Good Attorneys that did a good job.” The cameraman mumbles something about someone ‘accurately predicting’ the verdict. (You mean the jury interpreting the law correctly – what a surprise! In Hughes County of all places!) and saying “I haven’t seen anything like that in 30 years.” then the cameraman said, “Ben Dunsmoor has followed a lot of court cases, and he felt she was going to be found guilty after taking the stand.” Then they muttled back and forth about Bosworth taking the stand, and the Judge said something about how he would have not advised her to take the stand and whispered something about, “If I would have thought . . .”
Hey, cameraman, of 30 years, first things first, SHUT OFF YOUR CAMERA, then go bullshit with the judge about the case. Livestream just doesn’t shut off automatically after everyone leaves the room.
A fitting end to this freaking circus.
I just watched the verdict read live.
I was waiting for them to start talking about the photo-op session that Ben and his wife got to have with MMM at their company Christmas party.
“This was the craziest case I ever followed, but nothing has been more memorable then having my photo taken with Mayor Mike at the KELO Christmas party.”
No doubt, appeals. It’s never over, just relapses. In this case, lots of grounds. I suspect political sabotage, wrong venue, and to much media hype.
Spin
what grounds?
Media Hype — She called multiple press conferences (at least six or seven by my count) and admitted, in front of cameras, that she broke the laws that she was eventually convicted of breaking (she admitted she was out of the country when the petitions were signed and that she then signed that she had witnessed the signatures. Legally, that is perjury and submitting false or forged instruments for filing) . She can’t argue that there was too much media hype when SHE did everything possible to drum up the media hype.
Wrong venue – she would have to show that she tried to have the venue changed (to the best of my knowledge, she did not)…but I could be mistaken.
Political Sabotage – it would be interesting to see her try that one, but I’ll bet dollars to donuts that it would get laughed out of court.
She lost, she lost because she broke the law and admitted it during a press conference.
It’s time for her to step up and do something she should have done right after the Republican Primary – take responsibility for her own actions. She may get off with a slap on the wrist and a suspended imposition of sentence and might even get to keep her medical license. Had she sucked it up two years ago when this first hit, this may well be behind her and she might be back to work.
Woulda been cool to put all the hutterites on the witness stand.
It’s a lawyers game. When something seems absolutely decided, they’ll argue why. It will be in litigation 4 years until both sides get tired. The final finding will be inconclusive cross talk that fills a legal file cabinet.
Consider how many cases the city has lost. There’s no action. Everything gets tucked away but brought out again making future trials more lengthy, city guilty, and with no enforcement. The system is broken.
Stupidity, Arrogance and Lack of Integrity.
Let’s hope we never see this woman or her husband re-surface on South Dakota’s political scene.
Anonymous, this trial is costing her but political advertising costs more. Everybody knows Kim Khardashion but who’s Carly Fiorini. She’s here to stay. Some leaders are fallen angels (ie Janklow). With a handicap, I’ll bet she’ll be governor some day.
We’re here. It’s life. Let’s have some.
South Dakota needs a Palin.
Gosh byjeepers, she can’t see Russia from here.