As it is Memorial Day in the United States, attention has drifted away from the Conrad Black trial. The media reports on it, webbed overnight and today, focus on the upcoming turn of the defense:
1. The Hamilton Spectator has webbed an abridged version of Romina Maurino's latest report, which sketches out the most likely defense strategy.
2. From the Toronto Star's David Olive, a column that contains a discussion of the defense strategy in the third item of three, entitled "Perry Mason 101." Mr. Olive takes the prosecution to task for "inexpert witness preparation that has marked this trial's first seven weeks." In its last paragraph, Mr. Olive notes that Conrad Black's defense is taking shape already.
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The blog "Blamblog," by Brett Lamb, has an interesting photo-essay about a long Toronto walk he and his wife took: westward from Sheppard and Don Mills to Sheppard and Yonge; south to Yonge and Lawrence Ave; east to Bayview; and then up to Conrad Black's estate, to give him flowers. Mr. Lamb says that he saw the couple drive out of their home while he was there (but he didn't get let in.)
You can try following along by using Yahoo! Canada Maps. (Don Mills is the next major street west - to the left - of the centre star in the linked-to map.) This second Yahoo! map has the street in which the estate itself is located.
[I got the Bamblog link from this post in the blog "Small Dead Animals."]
Also, Mark Steyn discusses the possibility of calling one of the representatives of the major institutional shareholders of Hollinger Int'l during the time period covered by the indictment...and the risk of those institutions' own legal actions implying to the jury that the U.S. attorney's office picked on the wrong men.
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