“Who’s your daddy?” is a slang expression that takes the form of a rhetorical question.

Use of the phrase implies a boastful claim of physical or sexual dominance over the intended listener. Comedians suggest that the phrase is frequently spoken by men in a Freudian outburst during sexual intercourse.

litigatormom:

Hey, gurrl! How was the bus ride home?

It was okay. We actually got back to NYC a little ahead of schedule. Annoying to wake up and see that the NYT article on the march was on page 21, though!

Hey, gurrl! How was the bus ride home?

And Wells is putting on a show, the drama and the string of bright shiny objects intended to keep us from seeing what they are really doing — in this case, they are trying to suss out what it is that Fitz has on them all, Libby being used as bait.

I don’t think Wells is using Libby as bait. He wants to find out what he can about Fitz’s case in order to defend Libby.

The shiny object phenomenon is an element of almost every criminal defense. The defendants, even the innocent ones, rarely have a straight linear story to tell — if they did, they probably wouldn’t have been indicted. Being indicted doesn’t mean you’re guilty, but it almost always means your story has a lot of holes.

As for Wells, I cannot overemphasize this: the name of the game is “reasonable doubt.” He doesn’t have to prove Libby innocent, he simply has to get the jurors to have doubts that have some basis in fact about whether or not he is guilty. A defendant can be acquitted even if the weight of the evidence is against him: witness, O.J. Simpson.

How much doubt do you need to sow for it to be “reasonble”? Age old question. Under the law, it’s not enough to create some implausible scenario under which Libby “might” be innocent. There has to be some evidence supporting innocence, even if the weight of the evidence supports guilt. Given the non-linear stories most defendants have to tell, getting 12 jurors to find reasonable doubt is hard. But even one juror who has doubts can hang a jury, and buy the defendant more time as the government decides whether to retry, plea bargain, or give up.

So Wells is going to try as many things as Walton allows him to in an effort to find the fact or facts that permit at least one juror to have enough doubts to refuse to convict.

Eli @
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The Libby Trial Has Two Daddies.

We’re having a gay ol’ time.

Ole Fred (”Scooter”) Libbeystone gets outsmarted by his dog (”Dick”) again and gets locked out of the (white) house!