An Hour With Paris

The CBC has this CP item, which not only describes the two opening statements but also has a quick summary of Mr. Paris' first hour of testimony. Part of it: "Prosecutor Eric Sussman began taking Paris through his history at Hollinger International, his dealings with Black and the three other defendants and his impressions about how aware he felt they all were about the company's finances."

[UPDATE : Mr. Paris' initial testimony met with a lot of objections from Csr. Genson, as reported in this item by Romina Maurino. It got to the point where, according to Ms. Maurino, "Genson asked the judge if he could question Paris after a number of objections to the government's discussion," which Judge St. Eve assented to, and then he began "grilling [Mr. Paris] about whether he had himself put together the organizational chart he was discussing." There's more about the fireworks in the report itself, as well as a brief description of Conrad Black's reaction to seeing Gordon Paris testify.

[More detail about the substance of Mr. Paris' testimony can be found here, courtesy of the Belleville News-Democrat, in Illinois.]


Also: from the Chicago Tribune's "Hypertext" blog, the Conrad Black trial made item #3 on today's "High Five list." Given the way things went in Mr. Paris' hour of testimony, it may very well make tomorrow's top 5.

[UPDATE: It didn't.]