Conrad Black reported to the Coleman, Florida prison after being denied bail pending appeal. (see here). But he did manage to express his side of the case prior to reporting to the prison facility. In what is titled an Opinion piece in the New York Sun, Conrad Black presents an in-depth account of the wrongfulness of his conviction. The piece is titled, My Faith in American Justice.
And it is a powerful piece that reaffirms his faith in our judicial system despite what he has suffered. One paragraph was perhaps the most troubling, and it related to his inability to hire a particular legal counsel to represent him. It states:
"When we pointed out its deficiencies in our legal motion, the prosecutors laid the charges in this case, stayed other proceedings, and froze almost $10 million owed to me. The action achieved its objective: Brendan V. Sullivan of Williams & Connolly, one of America's most respected trial lawyers, who was my chief counsel, was unable to take this case, because I was unable to provide him, for a time, after the New York seizure, with the retainer he required. In the climate created by these charges and press accounts of them, I was unable to raise any substantial amount of cash for a retainer, which prominent lawyers require, without some time-consuming liquidation of assets."
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