No more banqueting on Black

By Steven Skurka

Unlike a soccer match, there are no draws in a legal battle. The law resolves cases with clearly defined winners and losers. This settled feature of the adversarial system was challenged with the release of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the appeal of Conrad Black.

According to Miguel Estrada, Black’s Supreme Court counsel, the ruling marked a great victory and a path toward his client’s freedom. Eric Sussman, the former lead prosecutor at Black’s trial, suggested that the decision marked a bad news day for Black and appeared optimistic that the Court of Appeals would not tamper with Black’s three mail fraud convictions.
Is it time for Conrad Black to celebrate or is he facing four more years of incarceration?

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Black is guilty of nothing more than being conservative, making Hollinger shareholders rich and daring to maintain his innocence in the face of av political show trial in that bastion of political neutrality … Chicago!  God speed Mr. Black and may your vindication be complete and your persecutors be made to publicly apologise.

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