“As July 1st is a Saturday, Canada Day is celebrated this year on June 30th, the day of the hearing…”

Canada Day is always celebrated on July 1st, unless it falls on a Sunday in which case it is observed the following day.

He must be another one of those ‘Connie Black Canadians’…“Only when convenient, eh?”…Arsehole.

This was a HUGE accomodation on his part. Instead of acknowleding that they have gotten a sweet treament from him, I think they have taken it as a sign of weakness and are now going to keep pushing the envelope.

A) That is a big mistake, Pat always give’s people the chance to have the utmost freedom if they will behave honorably, but if they abuse that —-Well thin about Lynn Stewart. She brought that down on her own head after he gave –I think–3 chances to rectify.

B) I really wonder about this flaky judge. I cannot imagine whatshe was thinking. I completely agree with Fitz that if you make a eal that has conditions, you are supposed to live up to those conditions. The barbeque thing was a freakin’s insult to the dignity of the court itself.

While Mary is right that in civil practice a party’s appearance is waived or adjournd all the time, Crimnal Defendants are something else altogether.

This guy is out on bail and out of the country, there was a big discussion at the bail hering about how the court was not inclined to let him out of the country and the the prosecutin unexpectedly said it was OK with them.

This wanker would be living in a sublet in Chicago during the hot part of this summer if Fitx had not been a nice guy and now this asshole is trying to make the USAO look impotent? Screw that!

1)The Conrad Black case will be large, a likely very labor intnsive. Black is an English Lord, owns a internatioanl media empire (including IIRC the Chicago Times? I think it’s called) and is a nasty vindictive type who has launched a series of personal attcks on the tall man.

2) Ghostman is right,there are several big cases (not to mention thre regular adminstrative and oversight duties he has running (I think 2nd or 3rd largest) USAO in the country. In addition to Conrad Black. PJF has a high stakes city hall hiring scandall case ON TRIAL RIGHT now (trial team led the the tireless Patrick Collins) and a 25 defendat case against some Chicago mafia guys called “the outfit”. He’s just a little busy.

3) Each GJ even regular GJ sit for a defined term. Remeber, the jurors are regular people with lives and jobs.
Any ASUA can use any given GJ (assuming you can book yime with them), but whichever on youstart with, you continue with. If that particular GJ expires before you are done, you have to “re-present” to a successive GJ.
It is usually frowned upon to start with a particular GJ if you don’t think you can finish before it expires b/c you are wasting everyone’s time. Letting that happen is the not the hallmark of a good prosecutor. Sometimes unexpected things happen and there’s nothing you can do about it, but it is not considered a good thing so in the last days of particular GJ’s term, there is always a big rush to finish presenting.

Also, supeonas are tied to the term of the GJ which was sitting when you supeoned the particular documents. If you have not taken steps to resove enforcemnt of a subpeon before the issuing GJ expires, the subpeona expires.

Which may be part of the backstory of the Jefferson Cong. office search?

Gotta go. I’m gonna be late for a surprise party. catch ya all later.

http://billmon.org/archives/002461.html

The Gift of the Nile

The Egypt we see on the map – the irregular rectangle with the Sinai hanging off one corner, like a stumpy tail – is a fraud, existing only in some colonial boundary commission’s imagination. The real Egypt is shaped like a sinuous snake, with its fangs clamped firmly into the bottom of the Mediterranean. (Indeed, one of the ancient symbols for upper Egypt, above the delta, was the cobra.)

To the west, a string of oases – the snake’s ba, or soul shadow — follow the parallel line of another ancient valley, which once marked the river’s course to the sea. Beyond that, only sand and wind and the faint sound of scorpions, scuttling across the dunes.

Egypt, in other words, is the Nile, and the Nile is Egypt – a 500-mile miracle that exists only because the highland forests of central Africa happen to drain north, through the Sahara, instead of west, into the Congo basin, or east, into the Indian Ocean. It’s hard to imagine a country more completely defined by an accidental quirk of geography – or, as the high priests at Karnak probably would have argued, that represents such a unique gift from the Gods.

There is, in short, no place like it on earth.

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Having experienced a Cairo summer the first time I was in Egypt, I really can’t imagine how life goes on in Baghdad now that the power is down to an unreliable hour or two a day. It’s closer to hell than any human being who isn’t Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld should ever have to go. Thanks to the high Aswan dam and generous government subsidies, electricity is cheap in Egypt, which means air conditioning is more common than you might expect in one of the world’s poorest countries. …

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