{"id":6951,"date":"2009-02-27T16:36:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T00:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6951"},"modified":"2009-03-03T23:43:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T07:43:50","slug":"coleman-busted-for-hiding-witness-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6951","title":{"rendered":"COLEMAN BUSTED FOR HIDING WITNESS, EMAIL"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Day 1 of the Coleman\/Franken U.S. Senate election contest in Minnesota, the Coleman team was busted doctoring evidence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the Coleman camp was busted having withheld notes<\/a> from Franken’s team, and today, the end of Week 5, “all hell just broke loose in the Minnesota courtroom,” according to<\/a> TPM’s Eric Kleefeld, when it was revealed that Coleman’s team has also been hiding a witness<\/i>, as revealed by secret email<\/i>!<\/p>\n

“Al Franken’s lawyers [caught] Team Coleman in the act of yet more concealing of evidence — and they’ve now made a motion to totally strike the Coleman camp’s claims about double-counting of ballots, which the Coleman camp has hoped to use to subtract over 100 votes from Franken’s lead.”<\/p>\n

Add to that what attorney Ernest Canning guest blogged here last week<\/a>, explaining how Coleman’s attorneys need to be sanctioned for having moved to un-count 933 ballots they’d previously signed a stipulation for, agreeing they were legitimately added to the total.<\/p>\n

Just imagine<\/i> what this case would look like by now, had Franken — or any<\/i> Democrat, anywhere, anytime — <\/i> been busted doing any<\/i> of those things in regard to an election or an election contest.<\/p>\n

On the roll, literally, in Phoenix right now<\/a>, so please see Kleefeld for the details<\/a> on the amazing fireworks today in the courtroom…<\/p>\n

UPDATE 3\/3\/09:<\/em><\/strong> Coleman fined for the incident. Slap on wrist includes stern warning that case could be dismissed if it happens again, according to the Star-Tribune<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

One of the more contentious episodes in the trial so far ended Monday when the judges slapped Coleman with a $7,500 fine for failing to disclose a document from a Republican election judge who claimed votes were double-counted in Minneapolis. But they allowed her testimony to become evidence.<\/p>\n

“In the event this sanction fails to deter future conduct on the part of [Coleman’s] counsel, the court will not hesitate to impose harsher sanctions, up to and including dismissal [of the case],” the judges wrote.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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