Sympathic juries?

Message ID: 121801
Posted By: walterbyrd
Posted On: 2004-04-09 15:40:00
Subject: Sympathic Juries?
Recs: 9

Said it before, I'll say it again.

Don't think that scox will necessarily win a jury's sympathies. Smart, dumb, hicks, whatever. Be certain that IBM has *very* good lawyers, and they know all about sypathic juries.

Making scox look like the bad guy would be a cinch. IANAL, but:

- McBride as "devout Mormon" ? I'd blow that notion out of the water in about ten seconds.

- IBM picking on scox? I could easily disprove that.

- First, I'd demolish all scox credibility, list dozens of outright lies made by scox execs. Think the jury would be sypathetic to a filthy liar calling himself a "devout Mormon" ? Real Mormons would be the first to hang him.

- Jury sypathetic to an extortion scam?

- Jury sypathetic to attepted theft of the work of volunteers?

b3n is a grandmother, and not a techie, yet she understands the issues. You don't have to be a software engineer to understand the issues in this case. Besides, I wouldn't assume that the technobabble is going to help help scox more than ibm.


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