Here’s the trial story, well-told by real reporter Eric Moskowitz in the Concord Monitor:
- Trial starts: opening statements and Charles McGee (December 6)
- McGee and Allen Raymond testify(December 7)
- Surprise defense witness, and testimony wraps (December 8)
- Last pitches by US Attorney and Tobin’s defense team (December 12)
- Juror hospitalized after day of deliberation on Tobin trial (December 14)
- Verdict: Tobin guilty on two counts (December 15)
Now, for contrast, here’s the same trial through the eyes of a blogger:
- Up at 6 a.m. to drive to NH (December 6)
- US Attorney’s opening statement (December 6)
- Digression on “Tobin’s” lawyers (December 6)
- Defense attorney’s opening statement (December 6)
- Chuck McGee, now out of prison… (December 6)
- What is the James Tobin story-behind-the-story? (December 7)
- Telegraph-ese on Tobin (December 8)
- Hanging out with real journalists (December 13)
- Ordeal by numbers: 44 objections? (December 13)
- Jury room may be tense, but the corridor’s calm (December 14)
- Sauce for one witness should be sauce for the other… (December 14)
- Tobin guilty on two counts, his lawyer glum and mum (December 15)
- AP reporter: “What happened? What happened?” (December 15)
- Real reporters have checked in on the Tobin verdict (December 15)
- Why do bird counts count for more than election sabotage? (December 20)
A few more information links to deep background:
- SourceWatch article on James Tobin
- James Tobin’s role in phone-jamming becomes public and he quits Bush campaign (October 15, 2004)
- Tobin indicted (May 18, 2005)
- RNC admits paying Tobin’s legal bills (August 11)
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1 Betsy Devine: Now with even more funny ha-ha and peculiar » Geeking it up, and getting just too darn geeky? // Mar 22, 2007 at 9:59 pm
[…] NH phone-jamming from “USAgate” to know where all the bodies are buried, either from Tobin’s original trial in December 2005, or from his Tobin’s January 2007 appeal, when I was the only […]