On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, John Young wrote:
Tanner's courtroom, she's very dirty. Jeff and Rob and the undercover agents behaved exactly the same and relished displaying the effect of their sucker punches to the jury.
But that's no excuse for JB not sucker punching back. The only reason for running your own defense is so that you can get nastier in cross-ex than a lawyer can. If you can't do it, you're better off having a lawyer do everything. I think JB had the worst of both worlds - a lawyer who he alternately ignored and fought with. I wasn't there but just an impression.
Anybody who has been responding to Aimee's emails in a manner that has her name in the To: is fucked, but the same is true if you didn't do that but decided instead to eat her bait and flaunt your superior intelligence.
I think Jeff used up all the low-hanging fruit on the list. Anyone else he goes after comes expensive. Maybe Choate but would he really be worth it. Anyone with half a brain could put on a stronger defense than the two previous victims. We either have the money or the emotional resources to corral a defense. CJ & JB didn't really even try. For example, neither got real lawyers.
I figure there is more than one operation underway here, and not all of them know what the others are doing. Christ, the feeding is so bountiful they're probably shiteating each other's. Which is what happens when cybercrimebusters have resources beyond their abilities.
They need an overt act. Mere chat won't be enough. DCF ---- Do under others as they would do unto themselves. -- The First Rule of MetaLaw. The problem with the Golden Rule is that tastes may differ.