It's about time someone brought the victims of shopaholism into the light.
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"Elizabeth, this is the big one. I'm coming to join you honey." - Fred G. Sanford
Al LaPierre got more money as the middleman than Larry. Dick Arrington would *never* have let that happen.
(10-21-2009 10:23 AM)cb4029 Wrote: [ -> ]
"Elizabeth, this is the big one. I'm coming to join you honey." - Fred G. Sanford
Post of the year.
If you want to be entertained, follow @JohnArchibald on Twitter. He's live tweeting the trial, and his personal commentary is absolutely hilarious. My favorite of the day:
Quote:BB in gray suit, white shirt, red tie. Not sure of the cologne. Oh, that's the smugness I smell.
I like one of the comments from the News:
Posted by soulglo:
wow. using a cartoon as evidence? larry should really be worried about his defense team. maybe they'll pull out the chewbacca defense strategy later.
(10-22-2009 02:12 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote: [ -> ]I like one of the comments from the News:
Posted by soulglo:
wow. using a cartoon as evidence? larry should really be worried about his defense team. maybe they'll pull out the chewbacca defense strategy later.
Guilty on all 60 counts.
Good riddance, La-La.
And of course, his wife blames it on racism. Lankford said that it wasn't a jury of his peers because there were only 3 black people. Typical of him.
It's over. Bury it and let's move on to something else, for the sake of everyone's sanity.
(10-28-2009 05:18 PM)dfarr Wrote: [ -> ]And of course, his wife blames it on racism. Lankford said that it wasn't a jury of his peers because there were only 3 black people. Typical of him.
Unfortunately for him the jury being too white is not acceptable grounds for appeal.
Had they stayed in Bham, it would probably be a different ratio of jurors, probably more to Larry's advantage, in his thinking.
I don't know how he thought people in the Tuscaloosa area would have not heard media coverage of the story. Birmingham TV covers Tuscaloosa, and people from several of the counties commute to Birmingham instead of Tuscaloosa.
Being that it was a Federal trial, I don't know that a jury in the B'ham district would have been very different racially from the one in T-town. While there are more blacks in B'ham, a federal jury pool draws from a wider district area than a city trial. Generally, if you are identified with Jeffco, you are in trouble anywhere else in the state. That may have been a factor in the removal of Richard Scruchy's second trial to Montgomery--and his conviction there.
"I don't know how he thought people in the Tuscaloosa area would have not heard media coverage of the story."
The thinking was probably more along the lines of, "fewer people feeling personally screwed by the Jefferson County sewer disaster."
Larry will appeal of course and probably at some point claim an incompetent/inadequate defense. When that fails he'll start implicating others.
Embarrassing to think he's a UAB grad.
(10-28-2009 11:08 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote: [ -> ]Being that it was a Federal trial, I don't know that a jury in the B'ham district would have been very different racially from the one in T-town. While there are more blacks in B'ham, a federal jury pool draws from a wider district area than a city trial.
Exactly.
(10-29-2009 08:10 AM)58-56 Wrote: [ -> ]"I don't know how he thought people in the Tuscaloosa area would have not heard media coverage of the story."
The thinking was probably more along the lines of, "fewer people feeling personally screwed by the Jefferson County sewer disaster."
Larry will appeal of course and probably at some point claim an incompetent/inadequate defense. When that fails he'll start implicating others.
Embarrassing to think he's a UAB grad.
If the trial had been in Birmingham the jury pool would have been Walker, Blount, Shelby, St. Clair, etc. counties anyway; not just Jefferson.
And remember, Richard Scrushy was a UAB grad too
and now that I think about it, blacks outside of Birmingham really have no loyalty to Langford. If he ever had any hope of a hung jury or anything like that, it would have been with a Birmingham or Fairfield resident on the jury. The color of skin isn't everything. What little bit of machine or Birmingham politics that he's able to game don't apply in Tuscaloosa.
"If he ever had any hope"
It's always possible he really is insane.
I can overlook the idiotic statements yesterday - which had to be the worst day of his life - but there's not a whole lot else that adds up to rational behavior in Larry.
I'm beginning to lean toward "insane". This morning, on the radio, he accused Patrick Cooper of slandering him in front the grand jury.
Later, on the same radio station, Cooper said he never even testified before the grand jury.
Now, who do you find more believable?
(10-29-2009 12:54 PM)Smaug Wrote: [ -> ]I'm beginning to lean toward "insane". This morning, on the radio, he accused Patrick Cooper of slandering him in front the grand jury.
Later, on the same radio station, Cooper said he never even testified before the grand jury.
Now, who do you find more believable?
And then there's the comments made to NBC reporter John Paepcke:
