I'm no lawyer, I've just spent WAY too much time in North Carolina being skewered by dishonest/lying ones.
In this Edwardian sex tape business, is it just me or is Judge Abraham Penn Jones exceeding his authority by finding Andrew Young in contempt for refusing to immediately cough up the video (on the premise that the Court will then put it under "safe" lock & key) during the course of a civil lawsuit?
I'm sorry, but I just do not believe the tape will be safe from John Edwards or one of his trial-lawyer or judge cronies (and rest-assured, he still has friends) if it's "locked up" in a North Carolina courthouse.
I'm not that naive anymore.
And I really don't get it. All the judge really had to do was issue a restraining order against releasing the tape until the matter of ownership was resolved.
As Edwards zips in and out of the country . . . and visits Bunny Mellon . . . and is clearly financing Reille's effort (because we know she has no money of her own) to get the tape back (so it can be destroyed), where are the Feds?
For all of this seems to me to be Law & Order 101: (1) Reille threw the tape in the trash. (2) The Youngs are material witnesses in a Federal case (i.e. the misuse of funds funneled through the campaign to prop up the candidate's mistress), and (3) the tape is evidence of that crime. The Youngs, although I'm sure sorely tempted (putting myself in their shoes, I would be), have not sold or publicly distributed the tape.
So (despite what all the Edwardian groupied at the N&O would have you think) this couple caught up in John & Lizzy's web of denial and hubris have actually demonstrated that they do have some scruples.
It's locked up/in a safe place right now . . . with one copy already in the Feds' hands. They've refused offers to sell.
And if I were Edwards, I would not push their buttons. If I were a lawyer (and I'm not because I do not live at the bottom of the ocean), the first question I would ask Reille in this lawsuit is . . . SHOW ME WHO IS GIVING YOU THE MONEY TO BANKROLL YOUR LAWYERS.
And/so, could Reille's lawsuit (which is really John's lawsuit) . . . not to mention Edwards visiting Bunny Mellon while an investigation is in play . . . be interpreted as OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE?
And why would a North Carolina Superior Court Judge play along with that???
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Cool theory, but I'll bet that Youngs have other copies stashed in other places that they haven't talked about.
Thanks.
I started wondering about the obstruction aspect after reading the story on Edwards visiting Mellon. One would think the Feds would put restrictions on his contacts while an investigation is on-going.
In addition to the Feds, I would bet real money that the publisher of Young's book has a copy (for purposes of legal protection).
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