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I sat through five days of the Nacchio trial expecting to see “Legal Brilliance". What I saw was a tired man, Stern, trying mightily to kill the goliath, that is, the U. S. Government. Stricklin was no Perry Mason of TV fame, but he was adroit, adept, technically oriented, and well prepared to blunt a few weak “Thrusts” by Stern, he of the “How to win a trial” video tape fame, and ultimately “Slay the dragon.”
The “Dragon” was good old “Joe” he of the $547 M net worth, he of the “haircut", he of the “White Horse", he of the “I will win, no matter what...” attitude.
Whoa folks, the jury won, Joe lost, the Government won, not during the case, but by setting up a last minute victory, how?
*Conroy was organized, used graphics folks could understand, and importantly, short, to the point, and when she was finished “Joe” was chopped liver.
*Stern, looked old, talked old, violated every public speaking rule by even going so far as to apologize for “Boring” folks, apologizing for being “Repetitious", and worse, not understanding that when your audience is bored, shut up, sit down.
*Stricklin made the “Set up” early in the trial, how: One day I came in after lunch and rode up in the elevator with a “Mom” and two “Tousled Hair Kids", guess who, Stricklin’s boys and wife; Stricklin made sure the wife and kids sat immediately behind him when he resumed questioning a witness for the government and made sure the Jurors saw him run his hands through the hair of the boys.
*In his close, when Stricklin made the “I would never, ever speech", I am almost certain the jurors tied his words to the earlier scene of his “Family, his wife, his boys".
*At that point the air went out of the room, Stern, Nacchio, the jurors, and all in attendance.
Game, set, match, It was 100% over.
Lawyers, “Ya gotta love em", right? Did the government win the case, nope, they sold the case; is “Joe guilty", the jury said so, most believe so, but if I could give “Joe” a few wrods of advice on his appeal, “Get a new attorney Joe".
Stern may have wanted to be Colombo, but today techies win, old timers, well they sure don’t win, and perhaps, as Doug MacArthur said years ago, “old soldiers .
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. whatever .
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. fade away.”
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READER COMMENTS
Hope good ole Joe gets alot more then ten years,but with the liberal judges sitting on the benches nowdays he will get a couple of years and a slap on the wrist and be ordered to pay $2.00
Puhleeeze Nacchio KEEP Stern he's the best,don't let anyone sway you. O thou of good moral character!
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