February 26, 2007

Creative sentencing ideas

What if the jury convicts Scooter Libby? One of Tom Macguire's commentators has this to say:

If [Sandy] Berger doesn't do time for his acts, then certainly, if Libby is convicted, his punishment should maybe be getting to kick Berger in the ass for 100 hours, or something to that effect.

Let's call that "community service".

To me, the interesting thing about Tom Macguire's excellent Just One Minute blog is as an examplar of a form of blog that will become all important in years to come: the legal case-specific blog. Just like KC Johnson's outstanding Durham in Wonderland blog all over the Duke/Nifong prosecutorial lynching case, the speciality blog is able to follow the case in depth as it develops outside of the story frame of the MSM newsrooms. The net result is an attention to detail that borders on the obsessive that translates into a superior level of coverage the MSM cannot even visualize.

Yips! from Robbo: Of course, that doesn't mean you should stop reading shallow, frivolous and sometimes apocryphal rantings like, say, ours.....

Posted by Steve-O at February 26, 2007 08:29 AM | TrackBack
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