William Jefferson D-La team aims to avoid freezer burn (too much pretrial publicity on Google)

NOLA ^ | 9/23/07 | Bruce Alpert and Bill Walsh

[Libloather]

Sunday, September 23, 2007
By Bruce Alpert and Bill Walsh

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Jefferson team aims to avoid freezer burn

Attorneys for Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, are asking Virginia District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III to craft a questionnaire to ensure that potential jurors for the congressman's corruption trial, now slated for January, aren't biased by all the pretrial publicity. "The fact that $90,000 was found in Mr. Jefferson's freezer has been repeated so often in print and electronic media that it has virtually become a national catchphrase," the attorneys said in their filing to Ellis. "And in addition to the problems created by pretrial publicity, this case involves a number of 'hot button' issues, including race, the reputation of Louisiana's politicians, and business dealings with Nigeria, about which jurors may have biases or pre-formed opinions." The attorneys note that when they prepared their brief this month, a search of "Jefferson" and "freezer" on Google produced 605,000 results. By last week, the number had grown to more than 800,000.

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[Libloather]

AP - Tue Sep 25, 4:28 PM ET Rev. Al Sharpton, left, accompanied by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., and Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., right, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007, during a news conference to discuss the situation in Jena, La.. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

[traditional1]

The questionaire for potential Jurors contains only one question:

Are you black?

[shankbear]

Look at this trio of racist bigotted bozos. Crooks all. Sharpton is such a news whore.

who da other dude peekin in ?

[digger48]

A Chocolate Press Conference

[GovernmentShrinker]

Dear Scumbag’s Defense Attorneys:

Your scumbag client volunteered to become a national joke when he stuck $90,000 in bribe money in his freezer. Laughing at national jokes is a right that all citizens enjoy, and jurors are no exception. Suggest you spend less time playing around on Google, and more time banging your heads against a wall trying to come up with a strategy to defend your indefensible scumbag client, since it would really suck to be successfully sued for negligent practice of law by a national joke.

Best regards,

A Citizen

[shankbear]

Who pays Sharpton? Is he paid by the MSM? A church? A racist organization? Who pay da bills Al?

[maine-iac7]

So the criteria should be that if someone commits a crime and everyone knows about - you can’t try them....sounds right, as long’s as the criminal’s a demRat -

[reefdiver]

I’m sure bob herbert of the ny slimes is available, that moron could of been on the first oj jury

[printhead]

Hard to tell. It seems his office burns to the ground when anyone like the IRS asks.