{"id":196639,"date":"2008-04-07T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/07\/apparent-hung-jury-in-wecht-political-show-trial\/"},"modified":"2008-04-07T05:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T10:06:00","slug":"apparent-hung-jury-in-wecht-political-show-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/07\/apparent-hung-jury-in-wecht-political-show-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Apparent Hung Jury in Wecht Political Show Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/s_560605.html\">good news for the defense<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To refresh your memory, this trial is about &#8220;celebrity pathologist Cyrl Wecht&#8221; allegedly using public resources of his medical examiner&#8217;s office for his private practice, and <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/speaking-of-political-prosecutions.html\">24 of the counts are over $3.06<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, it appears that he may have used a publicly paid secretary to run his business and make some faxes, and the US Attorney in Pittsburgh literally made a federal case out of this.<\/p>\n<p>Note that he is a prominent Democrat, and that <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Republican<\/span> Dick Thornburg, former Attorney General has called it a political witch hunt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is good news for the defense. To refresh your memory, this trial is about &#8220;celebrity pathologist Cyrl Wecht&#8221; allegedly using public resources of his medical examiner&#8217;s office for his private practice, and 24 of the counts are over $3.06. Basically, it appears that he may have used a publicly paid secretary to run his &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196639"}],"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=196639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}