{"id":196613,"date":"2008-04-08T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/08\/mistrial-in-wecht-political-kangaroo-court\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T01:06:00","slug":"mistrial-in-wecht-political-kangaroo-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/08\/mistrial-in-wecht-political-kangaroo-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistrial in Wecht Political Kangaroo Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/kdka.com\/local\/Wecht.trial.jury.2.694538.html\">Jurors could not agree on a verdict<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given the nature of the case, my guess is that it was 11-1 or 10-2 for acquittal, but we&#8217;ll find out.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve said before, this was <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">literally<\/span> a federal case over someone using their secretary and the office fax machine.<\/p>\n<p>But he&#8217;s a prominent Democrat, so the the Bush DoJ went after him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jurors could not agree on a verdict. Given the nature of the case, my guess is that it was 11-1 or 10-2 for acquittal, but we&#8217;ll find out. As I&#8217;ve said before, this was literally a federal case over someone using their secretary and the office fax machine. But he&#8217;s a prominent Democrat, so &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,972,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-justice","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}