Patrick Fitzgerald

[olyclimber]

Hard to think of another attorney doing work more important in this day and age for our country:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Fitzgerald

 

 

[STP]

Wasn't he portrayed fictionally in one of those Batman movies? No seriously, he sounds like a standup guy and candidate for executive material in the evolving Centrist Party.

 

"People now know that if you're part of a corrupt conduct, where one hand is taking care of the other and contracts are going to people, you don't have to say the word 'bribe' out loud.... And I think people need to understand we won't be afraid to take strong circumstantial cases into court."

 

In the name of expediency (which seems to be invoked on an increasing basis) it seems as if our system of law is yielding to the 'plea bargaining' process whereby one cops the guilty plea in exchange for a lesser sentence. So, really all the police have to do is investigate everyone enough so that evidence of all wrongdoing is accumulated and dumped onto a person. And...get this, there are crimes of conspiracy where you don't actually have to commit an act and you can be charged based on circumstantial evidence. I don't work in the profession but is this justice per his following statement?

 

The truth is the engine of our judicial system. If you compromise the truth, the whole process is lost . . . if we were to walk away from this, we might as well hand in our jobs."

 

Now, there is Truth as in physical laws that govern our universe but in as far as human intentions it appears that it operates in a realm of consensual reality where truth is always in a state of becoming rather than being.

Edited December 11, 2008 by STP

[Hugh Conway]

PARTISAN HACK! HE RAILROADED SCOOTER! HE WOULD HAVE OVERTHROWN DEMOCRACY!

[prole]

Fitzgerald is unlikely to get the chance to prosecute Blagojevich, who will go out one of two ways: Intentional O.D. on the toilet or in a hail of bullets after an intense gunbattle in the Illinois Governor's mansion ala Scarface.