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John Edwards Rests His Case Without Mistress' Testimony
ABC News ^

Posted on 05/16/2012 11:57:29 AM PDT by oxcart

John Edwards' lawyers abruptly ended his defense today without calling the former presidential candidate or the mistress with whom he carried on an affair.

Lawyers for Edwards ended their case with a series of bank statements, phone records and Federal Election Commission memos and a final shot at the credibility of Edwards' primary accuser, Andrew Young.

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1 posted on 05/16/2012 11:57:31 AM PDT by oxcart
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She was probably going to tell the truth based on advice of counsel not to expose herself to a perjury charge. Better not to call her.


2 posted on 05/16/2012 11:59:28 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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Edwards is going to go down hard.


3 posted on 05/16/2012 12:01:40 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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With this decision and Obamacare about to be thrown out, June should be a great month.


4 posted on 05/16/2012 12:03:28 PM PDT by YourAdHere (Spike Lee's films are boring and unoriginal.)
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I can’t wait to see Edward’s prison mug shot WITHOUT his hair piece on.


5 posted on 05/16/2012 12:05:24 PM PDT by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: SandRat
Edwards is going to go down hard.
Great double entendre.....after he goes to jail!
6 posted on 05/16/2012 12:05:52 PM PDT by jrg
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To: forgotten man
I can’t wait to see Edward’s prison mug shot WITHOUT his hair piece on

He probably wears a merkin too
7 posted on 05/16/2012 12:06:51 PM PDT by jrg
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I wonder what he’ll look like in pink prison jammies. Also wonder who his cellmate will be. I wonder if his cellmate will mind Edwards washing and drying his hair every day. I wonder.


8 posted on 05/16/2012 12:06:54 PM PDT by laweeks
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“Edwards is going to go down hard.”

Even if he does, he’ll probably be sent to one of those ‘country club prisons’.


9 posted on 05/16/2012 12:12:42 PM PDT by duckman (Go Newt...)
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To: oxcart

One less liar for hire/ambulance chaser to deal with.


10 posted on 05/16/2012 12:12:54 PM PDT by certrtwngnut (It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes. (Josef Stalin))
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To: oxcart

John-E is about to discover there is more than two Americas.


11 posted on 05/16/2012 12:20:30 PM PDT by Leep (Enemy of the Statist)
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He rested the case??!! Without channeling Elizabeth to speak in his behalf???


12 posted on 05/16/2012 12:20:56 PM PDT by In Maryland (Liberal logic - the ultimate oxymoron!)
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He’s going to discover that the Two Americas are Pitchers and Catchers.


13 posted on 05/16/2012 12:25:01 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: laweeks

Maybe he’ll get celled up with Blago and they would both have the hair stuff goin’ on.


14 posted on 05/16/2012 12:26:10 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: forgotten man

Out on appeal after appeal.
Breck girl will never see the inside of a prison.
Though his dead wife probably has her fingers crossed hoping.


15 posted on 05/16/2012 12:27:09 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Hey Mitt, F-you too pal)
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To: oxcart

“Silky Pony, meet your new cellmate and husband, Franklin Jefferson Washington.”


16 posted on 05/16/2012 12:32:34 PM PDT by twister881
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He’s going to discover that the Two Americas are Pitchers and Catchers.

Obama is going to make sure that Edwards can marry his cellmate.

17 posted on 05/16/2012 12:56:20 PM PDT by Pollster1 (“A boy becomes a man when a man is needed.” - John Steinbeck)
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maybe he too can be a John Travolta look-alike:


18 posted on 05/16/2012 1:08:42 PM PDT by bigbob
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I could be wrong, but I think Edwards is going to beat the rap.


19 posted on 05/16/2012 1:08:42 PM PDT by mkjessup (Romney is to conservatism what Helen Thomas is to a high fashion model walkway.)
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To: jrg

What’s a merkin?


20 posted on 05/16/2012 1:10:27 PM PDT by Eva
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