Monday, April 14, 2008

Day five of Palfrey's trial; Open thread.



Prosecutors will rap up their case sometime Monday. Here are some of the excerpt of the court transcripts from the trial last week:


1.
Prosecutor: "Of those 80 appointments, approximately how many times did you have sex?"

Ex-call girl: "Seventy-nine. . . . All except the gentleman who was a quadriplegic."


2.
Defense attorney: "Ma'am, you ultimately decided that this wasn't for you, right? . . . I believe you were tired of lying to your boyfriend, correct?"

Ex-call girl: "Yes."


Defense attorney: "And you're not particularly happy to be here, are you, ma'am?"

Ex-call girl: "Who would be?"


3.

Courtroom clerk: "Ma'am, please state your name."

Ex-call girl: [mumbles].


Clerk: "A little louder, please."

Ex-call girl (slightly clearer): "Rebecca Dickinson."


Judge: "Move a little closer to that microphone, please. Take two deep breaths and relax. Everything's going to be okay."



4. Call-girl names: Angela and Michelle, Natalie and Rita, Renne and Simone.

Angela: "The gentleman and I talked about . . . current events. At one point, we got undressed."

Natalie: "Met up with someone, we spoke . . . then we had sex."

Simone: "We talked for a little bit, and went to the bedroom."

Prosecutors have called just three ex-clients -- a landscaper with a history of mental illness and two suburban lawyers you never heard of. No senator. No diplomat. No war strategist (Ullman conceived the high-tech form of blitzkrieg he dubbed "shock and awe").

The only notable names made public so far are Sen. David Vitter , who has apologized to constituents for an unspecified "very serious sin;" Randall L. Tobias, who resigned as a deputy secretary of state after acknowledging he used the service for massages. The eight women and six men of the jury, 12 of whom will decide this case.

1 comment:

airJackie said...

This is a miscarriage of Justice. This case should have never been allowed to come to court. The Prosecutors have made fools of themselves and our Justice System. After reading some comments from different web sites about this case it's so clear how people will believe anything but stand for nothing. Ms. Palfrey had a legal business weather we like it or not. Employees didn't follow the contract they signed and took extra money for extra services. As some hold themselves up to be better then Ms. Palfrey and the female employees one can only say what's in your closet? I hope Preston blows this case out of the water and the Judge steps in to end this witch hunt. Will all the talk Musk Rat does about fighting corruption one would think he would walk over to the Pentagon and the State Department as he would find thousands of crimes being committed. After Musk Rat starts in those areas he can continue on to the White House where he will find crimes, corruption and Treason.