Word: shermans
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...Michael Skakel is innocent," says his attorney Mickey Sherman. "He was innocent 24 years ago. He is innocent today." Sherman is a frequent talking head on Court TV and enjoys the sweeping statement. But his follow-up comment, "The evidence was not strong enough 25 years ago, let alone today," has some teeth. Even Fuhrman believes the case will have to move forward "absent forensic evidence." The Sutton report, while intriguing, seems like a better argument for reopening the case than clinching it. And the credibility of Skakel's former "classmates" at Elan is being questioned. Joseph Ricci, who owned...
...year-old would automatically be remanded to an adult court. But 1975 law required probable cause for that to happen. If the case stays in juvenile court, Skakel would probably draw no jail time even if convicted. (The model in 1975 was juvenile rehabilitation.) If the case is remanded, Sherman has the right to appeal, a process that could take years...
This is not a new idea. As the historian Richard Hofstadter wrote, when Congress debated the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890, its leaders shared "an awareness of the economic foundations of politics. In this respect, the Sherman Act was simply another manifestation of an enduring American suspicion of concentrated power." For Senator John Sherman the antitrust law was an important means of "maintaining freedom." The concentrated power of trusts amounted to "a kingly prerogative," and he argued, "If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation and sale...