Archive for April, 2008
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008Today marks the one-year anniversary of the sentencing of Edward and Elaine Brown. As a result of their criminal tax convictions and refusal to appear in court, they each received a 63 month prison sentence which they started to serve on October 4, 2007. Had Elaine accepted the deal she’d cut with the government and resisted [...]
Reno's new trial
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Earlier this month, the jury in New Hampshire found Reno guilty on two counts, but could not reach an agreement on two other counts, resulting in a mistrial on those two undecided charges. The government will retry those two unresolved counts on June 23, 2008, according to a recent filing in the Bob Wollfe’s docket. The prosecutors have [...]
Sentencing will be 8/1/2008
Monday, April 14th, 2008The judge has scheduled a pre-sentencing hearing for July 14th, 2008 and the sentencing hearing for August 1, 2008. For those of you unfamiliar with federal criminal cases, several things have to happen between the jury verdict (last week) and the sentencing (August 1st.)Â 1) The probation officer assigned to the case will prepare a [...]
The official verdicts
Friday, April 11th, 2008Some updated court documents: Reno Gonzalez verdict Jason Gerhard verdict Daniel Riley verdict
Reno's verdict
Thursday, April 10th, 2008The jury found Reno guilty on couts two and three, and the judge declared a mistrial on the remaining two counts. Furthermore, the defendants and their lawyers are prohibited from communicating with any member of the jury. The judge has done a very good job protecting the jurors throughout the trial. If any jurors are [...]
Outbursts in the courtroom
Thursday, April 10th, 2008An excerpt of yesterday’s event from the Concond Monitor. Gonzalez’s outburst Lawyers for Gonzalez and the government met in a room adjoining the courtroom for more than half an hour following the reading of the verdicts. After their conference, they met with Singal in his chambers. The judge later instructed the jury to keep deliberating. [...]
The verdict is in
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008The jury found Danny Riley guilty on all counts. Jason Gerhard was found guilty on everything but the explosives counts. The jury is apparently hung on Reno’s counts but will continue deliberating tomorrow morning.  More soon.
The jury is still deliberating…
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Three more notes were passed to the judge yesterday. – The radio excerpt on 1e is not the complete audio excerpt heard in the courtroom. May we please have the complete exhibit heard in the courtroom.  - In Count II, the wording indicates that the Defendants are charged with conspiring with each other and other [...]
Notes from the jury
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Trying to second guess what a jury is going to do is about as productive as trying to guess what color Skittle you’re going to pull out of the bag next. Nevertheless, it’s sometimes fun to see what questions the jury has and what kind of items they request. The following are the notes the jury [...]
Jury deliberation continues
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Bright and early Monday morning, the Judge read his instructions to the members of the jury, and at 10:00 am, the jurors went to a back room to begin their discussion of the case. They have now been deliberating for more than nine hours. Here’s a Concord Monitor story on the deliberations so far.Â
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