Day: April 7, 2009

Stevens Case Wreckage

According to this report, a lot of lawyers are dismayed over how the case against Sen. Ted Stevens was handled. Most alarming to these lawyers was the prosecutors’ repeated failure to disclose information that might have helped the defense despite the sanctity in which lawyers are taught to hold those obligations. In an example of […]

Mayor Bloomberg’s Campaign

The Times takes note of an apparent element of Mayor Bloomberg’s reelection campaign. As [Bloomberg’s] campaign sought to overpower any candidate considering challenging him, Mr. Bloomberg commissioned a telephone poll last month that spread derogatory information about Representative Anthony D. Weiner, one of the mayor’s possible rivals in the race.