The government has thrown in the towel and abandoned its appeal of the Lori Drew conviction. As I wrote a year ago,
If the verdict does not stand, and there's a good chance that it will not, the shameless grandstanding by U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O'Brien will have expanded the injustice. It will have given Megan Meier's family the false sense that Lori Drew would go to prison for crimes that should never have been charged. Oh, probably O'Brien will harrumph about how he was right, about how Drew is evil incarnate, and how either the trial court or appellate court has unreasonably second-guessed the good men and women of the jury. Such a reaction would be consistent with what this prosecution is about - the furtherance of Mr. O'Brien's personal and political goals.So now I await commentary from Mr. O'Brien.
I think these kinds of social media based cases are fascinating. I just read that, of all people, Courtney Love is being sued for taking smack on Twitter. I bring this up to marvel not at the lawsuit but that she is able to a) turn on a computer, b) figure out how to open a browser, c) type in "www.twitter.com and d) write. Maybe Nancy Reagan was wrong and drugs really don't fry your brain cells?
ReplyDeleteCourtney Love is taking smack on Twitter? I thought she kicked.
ReplyDeleteOMG! That is hilarious! TOTAL Freudian slip, I guess!!!! I crack myself up sometimes :)
ReplyDelete(shouldn't been talking smack but you know....)