Over the past two days, we heard hours of testimony from prosecution expert witness Dr. Michael Welner, a courtroom psychiatrist-for-hire who invented the "depravity scale," which purports to quantify evil and depravity in criminal defendants.
During more than two hours of closing remarks, the prosecution laid out an operation they described as the Blagojevich Enterprise — one aimed at financially benefiting the former governor and his closest allies since almost the moment Mr. Blagojevich, a Democrat, was first elected in 2002.
But those five words, "Olympic values of fair play", sounded utterly fantastical, like some little snippet of Disney thinking adrift in the midst of his two-hour long prosecution of international sport.
Animal Defenders International's lawyers are going through 500 hours of footage, intent on a prosecution.
During the hearing, the prosecution played hours of taped phone conversations of alleged members of the ring.
In the first case, the journalists' lawyers told the judge that prosecutors had demanded 1.2m Egyptian pounds (£100,500) to view five hours of unseen videos that the prosecution says will prove the defendants' guilt.
After nearly a week in Torquay, a trip to Greenway on the River Dart and an evening at the theatre watching Witness for the Prosecution (two hours of talking followed by six minutes of double-bluffing, triple-twisting action at the end – 1953's answer to CSI), I realise I am gradually entering a better mindset for Agatha appreciation.
The besieged Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs, which is fighting a $1bn£650m0m) fraud prosecution, faced hours of attacks by angry lawmakers for putting its own profits before clients' interests as it dispensed complex mortgage-backed securities branded as "shitty" and as "crap pools" by its own traders.
The incident showed the double-edged nature for the prosecution of the hours of secret recordings made by a collectibles dealer, Thomas Riccio, on a digital recorder left for 10 hours in the hotel room where Mr. Simpson is accused of leading a group of five other men to rob two collectibles dealers at gunpoint.
The son of Bud Harrelson, a former New York Mets star, was sentenced yesterday in State Supreme Court to five years' probation and 420 hours of community service for hindering the prosecution in the samurai sword slaying of his best friend's stepfather, a retired New York City police officer.
