Anyone following the Bob McDonnell corurption trial?

[FSogol]

In an early thread on McDonnell, I goofed on the defenses already trotted out by his lawyer:

[div style="display:inline; background-color:#FFFF66;"]Which defense will he use? His lawyers have already trotted these out:
It wasn't illegal.
If it was illegal, McDonnell didn't know.
It is his wife's fault.
Everybody does it.
Sometimes courts get things wrong, so this case should be dismissed since they might get it wrong.
This is just political.

(Did I miss any of his defenses?)

Of course McDonnell lawyers used a variation of "It is his wife's fault" by claiming his wife fell in love with Williams.

Petula Dvorak ridicules this in today's Washington Post:

"On Wednesday, the rapt gaze of former Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell followed Jonnie Ray Williams, a former car salesman turned nutraceutical entrepreneur, as he strode across the courtroom and took the witness stand for the first time. I was waiting for her to clasp her hands together and moon, “Oh, Jonnie,” or maybe blow him a kiss.

Her puppy crush is a sad act scripted to avoid jail time for allegedly selling the prestige of the governor’s office in exchange for the Rolex on her husband’s wrist, the Ferrari joy ride, the private jet trips, the $70,000 life raft to save a real estate investment, the vacation at the lake house, the help with a daughter’s wedding, the fancy golf gear and the rounds of golf Bob McDonnell and his sons played at $300 a pop."

SNIP

"All the lovesick melodrama about the first lady having a crush on Williams has probably been manufactured by the defense attorneys. Maybe they have some evidence to back up this story line. But when this scandal began, Bob and Maureen McDonnell showed up in court holding hands, presenting themselves as a solid, Christian couple.

Now they are changing that narrative, walking in and out of court in separate entourages, riding different elevators, brushing past each other without even making eye contact. The staging borders on ridiculous. They are doing nothing more than selling Virginians another tale."

Whole article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/heres-jonnie-cue-the-rapt-gaze-from-former-va-first-lady-maureen-mcdonnell/2014/07/31/15e4d600-18b8-11e4-9e3b-7f2f110c6265_story.html