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John Edwards Jury Reaches Verdict
ABC News ^ | May 31, 2012 | MAT MENDEZ

Posted on 05/31/2012 11:35:47 AM PDT by sean327

After a lengthy deliberation, a North Carolina jury has reached a verdict in the John Edwards mistress-and-money trial.

The verdict is expected to be read shortly.

The jury began deliberating on May 18 after a month of testimony, which at times sounded more like a steamy soap opera than a trial on the intricacies of campaign finance rules.

Charged with six counts of violating federal campaign laws, Edwards was accused by the government of soliciting nearly $1 million from wealthy backers to finance a cover up of his illicit affair and illegitimate child while running for president in 2008.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; edwards; elections; fraud; johnedwards
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To: sean327

Personally, I think his punishment should be... to shave his head. make him stand on Pennsylvania avenue in stocks with a sign hanging around his neck...’i’m an adulterer who cheated on my wife when she was dying of cancer.” and a large bucket of rotten eggs and manure nearby.


61 posted on 05/31/2012 12:42:06 PM PDT by BigFinn (BigHat wisdom: Always drink upstream from the herd.)
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To: sean327
John Edwards Jury Reaches Verdict
 
 
Apparently not.
 
 
Even More Breaking......
 
 

Judge orders deadlocked jury in John Edwards..trial to continue deliberations
Fox News ^ | May 31, 2012 | Staff

Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2012 2:29:27 PM by C19fan

URGENT: Judge orders deadlocked jury in John Edwards federal corruption trial to continue deliberations after they failed to reach a verdict on all but one of six felony counts...

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...

62 posted on 05/31/2012 12:44:23 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: kevcol

But the judge can declare a mistrial on all 6 counts without accepting the verdict on the one count.


63 posted on 05/31/2012 12:50:19 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: ansel12; Night Hides Not

>> all of Newt’s ex-wives are alive <<

Well, yeah. But I hope you don’t mean to imply that Newt has done them some kinda favor. I mean, in spite of his obvious flaws, he’s not exactly another Henry the 8th!


64 posted on 05/31/2012 12:54:07 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: Bubba_Leroy
>> the judge can declare a mistrial on all 6 counts <<

Are you sure? Doesn't seem right to me. If the jury has decided that he is innocent on count no. 3, then the judge certainly couldn't vacate that finding.

65 posted on 05/31/2012 12:58:58 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: Hawthorn

I merely wanted to make sure that you didn’t leave people with the impression that Gingrich was going Edwards while his ex wife or wives were dying.

Gingrich doesn’t have any dead exs.


66 posted on 05/31/2012 1:07:32 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP now goes for it's Presidential candidates.)
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To: windcliff

LOL


67 posted on 05/31/2012 1:09:54 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant...better left unstirred.-PG Wodehouse)
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To: DesertRhino

‘I hope he walks. I know everyone gets a case of the fainting vapors about the wronged St Elizabeth. But she was nothing but an evil lawyer, an ice cold wife, and screwed with neigbors who were too downscale for her. She was 100% pro abort. Pro gay marriage,,etc. And she was staying very busy lying to us to help that low life become president.’

Two wrongs?


68 posted on 05/31/2012 1:11:21 PM PDT by UKrepublican
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To: UKrepublican

I agree; it was a Witch and Warlock; they deserved each other.


69 posted on 05/31/2012 1:16:41 PM PDT by MrKatykelly
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To: Night Hides Not

Now you get to vote for your pro baby killing, pro same sex marriage POS CULT candidate. That will send a tingle down your leg.


70 posted on 05/31/2012 1:19:52 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: sean327

NOT GUILTY ON COUNT 3. Damn idiot jurors.


71 posted on 05/31/2012 1:20:01 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: Hawthorn
Are you sure?

Nope, I'm not.

I know that double jeopardy attaches if the judge accepts the verdict on the one count. I also know that acquittal on one count does not preclude retrying on the other counts.

I was thinking that there was a recent court opinion to the effect that double jeopardy does not attach if a mistrial is declared before the verdict is read, but this is not an area in which I have any expertise so I could be misremembering it.

72 posted on 05/31/2012 1:20:05 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

“He should go to jail for committing adultery while his wife lay dying of cancer. Typical liberal.”

Are you referring to Edwards or Gingrich?


73 posted on 05/31/2012 1:24:04 PM PDT by EggsAckley ( There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply ! ! ..)
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To: sean327

Well the SOB got away with it......


74 posted on 05/31/2012 1:25:25 PM PDT by geege
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

He should go to jail for committing adultery while his wife lay dying of cancer. Typical liberal.

I agree. But in reality, I hope he does not go to jail. The kids have been through enough. Who is going to care for the kids????? He is a jerk, but he is their jerk.


75 posted on 05/31/2012 1:36:15 PM PDT by napscoordinator (VOTE FOR NEWT!!!!)
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To: UKrepublican

Sorry, but in America,, an affair is not criminal. Doing something wrong doesnt make it a crime. Neither is asking someone to help you keep it secret, or asking someone else to provide large sums of money to help you keep it secret.
Also,, if you hire your lover to do campaign work,, thats not criminal.

Theres simply no crime here. If money didnt go into his campaign account, and get used to commit a crime, it isnt a violation. Maybe in the UK,, but not here.


76 posted on 05/31/2012 1:47:53 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: DesertRhino

What a stupid comment. This has absolutely nothing to do with UK/US legal difference.

You made a substantial post, the bulk of it criticising his wife. Your disdain for her was intertwined with the case when the two have nothing to do with each other.


77 posted on 05/31/2012 1:59:46 PM PDT by UKrepublican
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To: DesertRhino

I completely and totally agree with you on everything you said.. very well stated. Let’s not forget that Obama just pulled of the biggest heist in the history of humanity, to the tune of trillions laundered to his cronies.. and we are supposed to care about this chicken feed? Anyway, your post was really good.. thanks.


78 posted on 05/31/2012 2:17:44 PM PDT by Kratos
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To: DesertRhino
...or asking someone else to provide large sums of money to help you keep it secret.

If he accepted Federal campaign funds then that absolutely is a crime.

79 posted on 05/31/2012 3:17:04 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Julia: another casualty of the "War on Poverty")
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To: Gay State Conservative

Atleast it was DEMOCRAT money he was misusing - OBUMMER takes ALL OUR MONEY and still continues to find ways to spend more while telling all of us how to eat, how to shut up, and worse how awful America is! I am so SICK of him I cannot wait til November to vote his sorry, miserable, arrogant hide out of our WHITE HOUSE>


80 posted on 05/31/2012 7:49:26 PM PDT by princess leah
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