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What exactly does all of that money buy you for a defense? What I mean is, are we talking about somebody using their fortune to bribe and buy witnesses? Use t
by jlgreco 13y ago
What exactly does all of that money buy you for a defense?
What I mean is, are we talking about somebody using their fortune to bribe and buy witnesses? Use their wealth to construct alibis?
Or are we talking about somebody using their fortune to hire a better lawyer than the DOJ can hire? Hire better expert witnesses than the DOJ can hire?
If all of the transactions are legitimate and all that money bought him was a world-class defense.. then I say "tough noogies" to the DOJ. Being able to afford the next Johnnie Cochran doesn't seem problematic to me; the only thing that concerns me is that poor people cannot receive a similarly competent defense.
- vinceguidry 13y agoLegal strategy is only partly about manipulating the perception of truth. The other, often significantly more effective tactic, is to drown your opponent in requests and subpoenas, each of which requires non-trivial resources to respond to. It's incredibly cash-intensive, you effectively declare legal nuclear war and just go all out. It's virtually impossible to counter without special legislation already in place to counter exactly that sort of threat, e.g. anti-SLAPP laws.
- jlgreco 13y agoHow could that do anything other than delay the inevitable? Sooner or later you are going to be in front of a judge and a jury. They can spam all they want, it isn't going to stop the trial from happening.
- vinceguidry 13y agoI think you can then use the whole charade as an argument that the prosecution made lots of mistakes, increasing the chance for a favorable outcome or conditions for appeal.
- steveklabnik 13y agoThink of it as a variant on 'the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.'