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A panel of three federal judges in Boston is scheduled to hear more about phone-jamming this morning.
According to court documents, Tobin will be represented by John G. Kester, former Deputy Ass’t Secretary of the Army, Harvard Law alum, and a partner from the same DC law firm that was paid millions by the RNC to represent Tobin during his criminal trial. The RNC says it no longer pays Tobin’s lawyers. What nobody says is who now pays them. |
On the table this morning are three different appeals. (Here’s a Flickr set of the relevant documents.) Williams and Connelly claim that the Appeals Court should 1) overturn the NH jury’s finding that he was guilty and/or 2) cancel his sentence to 10 months in prison and/or 3) grant him a second trial.
I am genuinely sorry for Mr. Tobin.
In related, interesting news…
Remember the tantalizing sworn testimony from Chuck McGee that Darrell Henry helped to engineer a post-phone-jam phone jam? And later stories that Henry said he’d get help from the US Chamber of Commerce?
James Tobin’s NRSC boss during the 2002 phone-jamming was Chris LaCivita. In 2006, LaCivita’s official bio at the website of Terry Nelson’s consulting firm, Crosslink Strategy Group makes a big point of LaCivita’s earlier work–for the Chamber of Commerce.
I find that information very interesting.