Tuesday, August 28, 2007

New Motion

According to this CBC report, Conrad Black has asked for a mistrial or an acquittal. It doesn't specify which judge this was asked of. A Bloomberg report quotes some of the words therein.

A more detailed report on this new development is at CTV.ca, which also notes that the motion is being considered by Judge St. Eve herself. It has some excerpts from post-trial interviews from two jurors. Romina Maurino also has a report giving reactions from several experts, who all conclude that the motion has little chance of succeeding. Ms. Maurino's report also notes that this motion is actually one of two, the other being a motion for plain acquittal, and that each defendant has filed a similar motion. The prosecution has until September 17th to respond.