Breaking: NH phone-jammer Tobin to face new trial

[kpete]

Breaking: NH phone-jammer Tobin to face new trial
by Betsy Devine
Mon Jul 23, 2007

Thursday's Union Leader has the only news so far:

A new trial for accused 2002 GOP phone jamming conspirator James Tobin is expected in either December or January. Tobin's conviction on phone harassment and conspiracy charges was reversed by a federal appeals court in March and remanded to the trial court... Briefs will begin to be filed in September.

This could be a lot more interesting than Tobin's first trial, for a number of reasons.

NOT LEAST OF WHICH IS ATTORNEYGATE!!!
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So--federal crime in November, 2002 as paid professional staffers for the NH Republican State Committee and the RNC conspire to jam Democrats' phones on Election Day. Eventually, one FBI agent in Boston is told to look into this on a part-time basis, but instructed not to follow up on leads to Washington, DC because "other agents" will cover such leads. Such leads, if followed by anyone, yield no indictments, testimony, or the slightest evidence that other FBI agents worked on the case.

more here:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/7/23/122853/672

[Buttercup McToots]

1. I will look forward to this...

:)