The Feds should keep going; (link...)

Maybe with jail time looming, leverage can be used to get answers to some of Ms. Granju's questions.

I can't say "good," exactly, but I certainly understand that this verdict had to be.

I was sitting alone in my office the evening I first read these accusations against him and I gasped out loud. I read frantically, with tears welling up in my eyes. I didn't even know him particularly well, but he was still on my mind the next morning.

I think it was that next morning that Georgiana’s column ran on the same subject and her tone was also pained, I thought.

He was once an admirable man who accomplished admirable things, but he destroyed his life with alcohol and drugs.

Yes, I understand the legal chaos and the myriad consequences to other people resulting from his actions, but I have great difficulty ignoring the human tragedy of his story.

Reporter's notebook: Disgraced judge's counsel borrows from infamous presidential contender's lawyer

"Both the beginning and the end of defense attorney Donald A. Bosch's impassioned speech to jurors in U.S. District Court were, except the occasional changed wording, a carbon copy of those offered up by the defender for John Edwards, a former presidential candidate, in his May campaign finance fraud trial, a comparison shows."