If you were planning to Eddie Cicotte your own prosecution, you couldn't have found a better way to do it than to include in your opening statement material the judge already had told you that you couldn't use. This Blog leaves it to the lawyers in the audience as to how unprecedented it is to have the government's case thrown out after approximately five sentences at trial.

This whole episode has been nothing but an unending delight to those of us who have been watching the "drug war" for the past 30 years.



You lied to me, Eddie.