The Conrad Black Trial

PJ Media notes our Marathon Pundit among the few following trial of Conrad Black in Chicago.

The Black trial is a huge story up in Canada, very big in Great Britain, but it's getting just a fraction of the coverage from the Chicago media that the trial of ex-Illinois Governor received in 2005 and 2006.

I found Black's bio on FDR impossible to wade through. It's surprizing such a colorful figure alledged to have looted millions gets so little notice. John does link a blog Mark Steyn is keeping on the trial and writes in today's post,

What’s gone wrong with this prosecution? I think it has a lot to do with the nature of justice at the federal level. I’m filing this post by cell phone from a couple of floors above the court house, just to find a quiet corner. You can’t help noticing that this 30 story building is full of quiet corners. They’re called the court. Almost every other court apart from Judge St Eve’s has been empty since I got here. If you need to find an empty room, an unoccupied court is your best bet. My sense is that the prosecution thought this would be a regular corporate fraud case. They would lean on a couple of folks at the bottom, and then run the domino of plea bargains all the way up the chain to the top. Whatever one thinks of Conrad Black, he’s not the type to cop a plea. And nor, it turns out, were the other three defendants. So the government wound up having to take the case to court, and so far they’re not very good at it.