Patterico = Karnak
The L.A. Times reports:
A Los Angeles County judge has thrown out a $6.5-million award to a former gang member who sued his public defender for failing to convince a jury he didn’t assault two corrupt police officers.
When the verdict was rendered, I noted the outrage of a jury finding that the cops who shot and framed the guy were zero percent responsible for his incarceration. I then predicted:
[T]hat verdict will not stand. In fact, my guess is that the trial judge won’t wait for the appeal — she’ll substantially cut the award, and may vacate the judgment entirely.
Just call me Karnak. Though it really didn’t take a Karnak to see this coming. This was an outrageous and unsupportable verdict. Good on the judge for throwing it out.
Sorry for the OT comment, but I don’t see an email addy.
Here is a Korea affairs blogger, dealing with a bit of NYT bias, that you might be interested in.
http://freekorea.blogspot.com/2005/08/ny-times-on-christian-event-for-north.html
The Sanity Inspector (ef5d4d) — 8/10/2005 @ 12:55 pmWho were the lawyers who overturned his conviction? The same PDs he sued?
nk (54c569) — 8/10/2005 @ 3:07 pm