The media reports, webbed overnight and today, on the Conrad Black trial are largely summaries or excerpts:
1. A mention of the continuing deliberations is the third and final item in the New York Times' "The Week Ahead."
2. TheTyee.ca's "Mediacheck" highlights what they consider to be the most important story on the trial over the past month: Judge St. Eve's rebuke of Conrad Black: " Conrad Black declined to speak in his own defence at his racketeering trial after the judge explained, "I don't care what Maclean's magazine told you, you're not allowed to just answer questions about Nixon." (This link, copied verbatim from the article, is to an excerpt from The Invincible Quest: the Life of Richard Milhous Nixon, which focuses mostly on the immediate post-Watergate period. One of the interesting trivia items therein is the only sympathy call that Nixon got while sick in late 1974: it was from Mao Tse-Tung. The last except discusses his death in 1994 and legacy.)
3. The London Free Press has webbed Peter Worthington's latest trial-related column, which focuses upon the recent notification controversy. After a journalist had complained to her, Judge St. Eve had decided to stop sending out E-mail notifications of jury notes, but relented later. This is one of the few columns in the trial that has something bad to say about the judge.
4. An earlier article, about the differences between U.S. capitalism and the British variety, gets an excerpt discussion in a Russia Journal blog.
5. From ITV News, an item that starts off by mentioning that the deliberations' continuation before briefly recapping the case.
6. The trial is mentioned in the Associated Press' "Executive Morning Business Summary," as webbed by Forbes.com. The item itself is entitled "Black Case Comes Down to Troves of Docs."
7. A brief item from the Canadian Press, webbed by 680 News, is entitled "Waiting game continues for Conrad Black as jurors resume deliberations." [An updated version webbed by CTV News specifies that the jury will sit until 4:45 PM CT today, from 9 AM to 2 PM CT tomorrow, and not at all on Wednesday for the Independence Day holiday.]
8. CTV NewsNet aired a report from David Akin at 1:04 PM. According to Mr. Akin, there has been no news from the jury today; no notes have been sent out since last Friday. He has no explanation as to why. The buckle-down could be a result of juror thoroughness during the trial. The jurors haven’t announced as of yet when they’ll sit this Friday, if at all.
Mr. Akin also reported that a majority of lawyer-observers think that Conrad Black will be convicted on at least one charge.
9. Jossip has an entry on the wait for the verdict, with its usual brand of snideness added.
10. Rosemary Barton, in a report aired on CBC Newsworld at 2:08 PM ET, advanced a new theory about the reason for Judge St. Eve wanting the jurors to rely upon their notes and memories: the opposite policy would unduly slow down the deliberations, because there were so many witnesses.
11. Another update with Mr. Akin, broadcast at 3:10 PM on CTV Newsnet, had him saying that there are no notes, or anything else, from the jury today. He speculated that the verdict will possibly be delivered next week, but it's almost certain that there will be no verdict this week.
He also related that there are nine women and four minority women on the jury, and people in the category tend to convict more frequently than others in cases of this kind. People in the latter category tend to take disapproval of an opulent lifestyle into account when deciding.
12. From the BBC News, a report that sums up both the prosecution's case and the defense's. Near it end, it notes: "A verdict will mark the end of a long fall from grace for one of Britain's best-known businessmen,..."
13. A feature by Romina Maurino, webbed by the Prince George Citizen, discusses the implications of Conrad Black being found guilty for Canadian securites law: it may make easier the putting together of a national securities regulator. It also discusses other investigations in America, particularly of backdating executive options.
14. WQAD.com has webbed an AP "Summary Box" which passes on the lack of news from the jury today, and gives the schedule for tomorrow.
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I wonder why so many people keep speculating on the reason why Judge St. Eve did not allow the jury to see the transcripts of witness testimony. Her reasons were already made clear (I thought).....that the transcripts also contained legal arguments and rulings made during the many sidebars that the jury should not see.
It could be gossip, or it could be belt-and-suspenders reasoning. I don't know.
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