Media Roundup: Pushed Back

Here are the overnight reports on the Conrad Black trial:

1. The latest report by Romina Maurino, webbed by the Ottawa Citizen, recounts the cross-examination of Fred Creasey by Peter Atkinson's counsel Michael Schachter, which got so vigorous that counsel for Jack Boultbee registered an 'objection' to it by petitioning for a mistrial. It ends with a brief description of the redirect examination by prosecutor Judie Ruder.

2. Peter Brieger, writing for CanWest News, relates that the defense theory regarding the non-compete payments is that they were disclosed in a timely fashion, while Csr. Ruder entered the claim that there wasn't sufficient detail in the disclosure, through her redirect.

3. The Jurist has a brief note, centred on the mistrial motion.

4. Another brief write-up comes courtesy of Accountancy Age, which compresses all of Mr. Creasey's testimony into four paragraphs.

5. CanoeMoney has a preview of what the taped testimony of Darren Sukonick will reveal.

6. Paul Waldie of the Globe and Mail goes into detail about Csr. Ruder's "theatrics" in her redirect.

7. The National Post's Shinan Govani mentions the arrival of Dominick Dunne at the trial as the second item in his latest piece. "When [Mr.] Dunne finally showed up at the Conrad Black trial last week, there was a huge sigh of relief among all the other journos. Finally! Validation!" It's item 2 in "Putting Clout Into Out."

8. Mr. Waldie also has a report on the Department of Justice's now-successful impoundment of those 13 boxes from 10 Toronto Street, which includes the hoops that the prosecutors had to go through in order to get them. There's a hint that revealing the contents of them may prove to be anticlimactic. This item was mentioned on BNN's 9 AM ET headline report, which noted that the boxes have not been released quite yet.


Also: a South African editorial in Fin24.co.za, written by a former employee of one of Conrad Black's companies, compares the South African government to the prosecution's picture of Mr. Black.