From McCleans.ca website in Canada:
We're back in court this morning to hear arguments on forfeiture - ie, if the defendants are found guilty, who gets to decide which assets are seized - the jury or the judge? I believe Conrad's guys have asked for the jury to do it. Don't ask me why. The issue may eventually be moot, but one of the faintly depressing aspects of this business is that, as soon as the case goes to the jury, the defence team, instead of sitting around waiting for the verdict, has to prepare for the worst and start in on forfeiture motions and grounds for appeal.
Update: No verdict today.
3 comments:
Are the defense lawyers smoking something funny? Let a jury decide what assests to seize? And if the jury is in the mood to sock it to him?
Kittybowtie:
This is the last ditch by the defense attorney. The defense attorney want the jury to decide since the defense attorneys know that many jurors don't have a legal background. Let the judge decide that matter and leave the jury to provide a verdict. And if Black is found guilty, I say freeze Black's entire assets in the U.S. and internationally and provide Black with a tin cup.
Mr. Kittybowtie is right at lease
99.99 persent of the time. I left the .01 persent for cat error.
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