Outrage, Questions of Fairness Drive (Ken) Starr to Death Row Case

[quaoar]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32443-2005Mar13.html

Jury Wasn't Told All in Va. Slaying, Defense Says

By Donna St. George
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 14, 2005; Page A01

Robin Lovitt was deep in the throes of a major relapse. He had sold his television for $20, he would later tell police, and used the money for beer and cigarettes. Then he bought two rocks of crack in what became a long night that ended in an Arlington pool hall on Nov. 18, 1998.

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The next morning, nine miles from the televised drama on Capitol Hill, police in Arlington were immersed in their investigation of a homicide at Champion Billiards Sports Cafe. The night manager, Clayton Dicks, 45, had been stabbed to death and a cash register drawer stolen.

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(Ken) Starr had left his job as independent counsel and returned to his law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, where Lovitt's case had become a pro bono project. Last year, Starr became one of Lovitt's lead attorneys after being disturbed by how much he says went wrong, both in Lovitt's growing up and in his legal proceedings, including the destruction of nearly all physical evidence from his trial.

"A compassionate and decent society has to ensure that a death-penalty regime is as error-free as humanly possible and as fair as humanly possible," Starr said in an interview. For Lovitt, he said, the system has failed that test. Moreover, he said: "He is maintaining his innocence, and as his counsel, I am maintaining his innocence."

[autorank]

1. His penance? I doubt it. Or did he find the real Jesus?

I think Starr should crawl on bare knees up the steps of the Supreme Court building...every morning at 6:00am with derisive crowds throwing rotten fruit and vegetables at him. Or perhaps this,



or this

[hatrack]

2. Looks like Kenny Boy #2 needs a touch-up on his morality chrome

Nothing like a high-profile case like this (preferably with a minority defendent so we can all see just how fair he is).

Should be fun arguing this in front of Scalia, Thomas and Rehnquist, should it ever get that far, eh Kenny Boy?

[regnaD kciN]

5. Maybe he can go to Chimpy, and ask to have the sentence commuted...

I'd sure love to see Kenny's face when Bush not only turns him down flat, but cracks jokes about his client to the press corps afterwards.

:grr:

[hatrack]

14. Yes, "Please, don't kill me" would really win hearts and minds!

:puke:

[MO_Dem]

3. Why! I do declare!

Ken Starr is going to be such a loveable character that we'll all be demanding he be promoted to the supreme court. NOT! NEVER! NO WAY! Fugeddaboutit, Ken!

[snippy]

11. I think you have revealed the chief GOP Semen Sleuth's plan.

Starr has sniffed more crotches than my dog but he wants to be appointed to the Supreme Court and thinks this case can be used to deflect some of the criticism of him for defecating on his copy of the Constitution, masturbating with it, and then trying to lick it clean.

[daleo]

4. Trying to remove the stain of Monica's dress from his legal reputation

It will never go away Starr. Your entire life will be remembered for that disgraceful performance. Your place in history will be that of a right wing hatchet man.

[NYC]

6. You're correct.

He'll never top that performance.

[DeepModem Mom]

13. I doubt he's in much demand for corporate law practice --

my guess is his career as a corporate lawyer is pretty well over.

[jdots]

7. Karl & Kenny were separated at birth n/t

[dbt]

8. Starr says the LAW WENT WRONG? Just a damn minute here!

You sanctimonious, puritanical, crusading, moralizing, blood-bloated son of a BITCH, you! You flyspeck on a hair on a pimple on a hemorrhoid in the asshole of Common Decency! You RUINED people in Arkansas for life in your quest to get Clinton. You TOLD them up front that they could either tell you what you WANTED TO HEAR or you would RUIN THEM FOR LIFE.

You perverted the law JUST BECAUSE YOU COULD DO IT and these "little people" didn't have a prayer against you. YOU KNEW THEY HAD DONE NO REAL WRONG, BUT YOU RUINED THEM ANYWAY!

And now you have the UTTER GALL to talk about the "law going wrong?!?!?!?" Burn in Hell, you bastard.

Burn.

[Flubadubya]

9. Sheez dbt, I couldn't have said it better...

Props to ya pal! :toast::bounce::hi:

[dbt]

10. Hey, Flub!

Long-time-no-hear! Rumor was that you had been packed off to the Gulags near Springdale for re-education...

:bounce:

[elehhhhna]

12. Here'sa the pic of the K&E pro bon oteam on the case--Ken ain't in it

http://www.kirkland.com/ourfirm/docs/pro_bono.pdf (see Death Penalty case)

he's just a mouthpiece--and they probably have to keep him busy somehow.

[gratuitous]

15. Well, if anyone would know about a flawed prosecution

It would be Kenneth Starr, who threatened witnesses who didn't testify to suit him, had to grant immunity several times over to other witnesses when their stories changed, leaked grand jury testimony to the press, kept going back to his pet judges to expand his mandate into areas that had nothing to do with his original investigation, tried to skedaddle off to a sinecure at Pepperdine University when it became clear he was pumping a dry hole, presented his findings to Congress as a prosecuting attorney rather than an investigating attorney, and ultimately wasted $80 million on an investigation that resulted in zero convictions.

Wait until he finds out that "pro bono" means he doesn't get paid for representing Mr. Lovitt.

[annabanana]

16. airwick ineffective against karmic stink..............n/t