Will Fitzgerald present a prosecution rebuttal case after the defense rest?

[AlCzervik]

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[LSparkle]

1. I asked this the other day -- will be interested in response

Has Wells and co. opened the door to call KKKarl or others????

[AlCzervik]

2. maybe and i think a rebuttal case would be endlessly interesting.

[Redbear]

3. What would he rebut?

Nothing in the reporters to rebut. I guess he could rebut Hannah, but his cross was pretty damning already.

[LSparkle]

8. Couldn't Fitz use the reporters' testimony that Libby wasn't only leaker

to prove that there WAS a conspiracy to discredit Wilson? It's almost like the defense has done part of their job for them ...

[AlCzervik]

16. his team will be pouring over courtroom transcripts i suspect.

[Crabby Appleton]

19. no one is charged with conspiring to discredit wilson

[PRETZEL]

4. I believe he is..................

from FDL's liveblogging


"Fitz Zeidenberg is doing the summation, I'll do rebuttal. Wells said the only way they'd lose this is if they didn't follow their oath. We said justice was instructed."

[Missy Vixen]

5. Peter Zeitenberg (sp?) is doing the closing argument

Patrick Fitzgerald will be doing the rebuttal. This is to start Tuesday.

Fresh from firedoglake...

Julie

[AlCzervik]

6. cool, thank you.

:hi:

[Spazito]

7. I think it may depend on Judge Walton's ruling regarding

the defense request to submit more documents to bolster the 'busy/memory' defense in lieu of Libby testifying. If Judge Walton allows documents he previously ruled would only be relevant if Libby testified, Fitzgerald may bring in rebuttal witnesses but it isn't clear at this point, imo. (Sheer speculation on my part)

[LSparkle]

9. Is Wells still using the "faulty memory" defense, or has he moved to

scapegoat? From the defense witnesses, it seems like they're leaning more toward "he was just a scapegoat for others" than "he was too busy to remember."

[PRETZEL]

12. I'm not sure what his defense was,

he made a big point of making sure that all the reporters he had on the stand were Pulitizer Prize winners (which wasn't all that impressive) who all said that Libby didn't tell them. Why, I'm not sure, Libby wasn't on trial for leaking. Then when Hannah testified he said that Libby usually couldn't remember who said what, but that something was siad. Is that the too busy to remember defense? And who did the defense present to prove Libby was being scapegoated by the other side of the administration, no one that I recall.

[Spazito]

15. I honestly think they are trying to throw multiple theories

explaining WHY Libby lied because they cannot refute the fact Libby lied to the FBI and then to the Grand Jury.

It strikes me of the old, "I didn't do it and even if I did, I didn't mean to and, anyway, everybody did it" excuse my kids used to use, lol.

They have gone from Libby not telling a bunch of reporters about Valerie Plame, which means squat because he wasn't charged with the leak, to Hannah's testimony about how busy Libby was doing IMPORTANT work which caused him to misremember (aka lie) to the FBI and then to the Grand Jury.

Reading the arguments that took place earlier today with Fitzgerald and his team, Libby's defense team and the Judge, it looks to me they are now working REAL hard at trying to push the Judge into decisions that they can use, right or wrong, on appeal.

[LSparkle]

17. I heard something about Libby meeting Tom Cruise ...

and being all excited over it; maybe Fitz will bring that up during rebuttal, to prove that he wasn't exactly working 24/7 on national security during the time in question.

[Spazito]

18. In Fitzgerald's very succinct cross -examination of Hannah

he asked the following, note that TYOI = Hannah:

SNIP

F Best time to see Libby was evening, particularly if you focus July 6. Fair to say during that week, if you said tomorrow morning take an hour or two to go out for coffee, he wouldn't take that time.

TYOI It would be harder.

F If he gave someone an hour or two, it was something Libby thought important.

TYOI WRT me, yes.

END of SNIP

It is so delicious to read how he, in these two questions, brings Libby's two hour coffee break with Judith Miller back into the jury's mind, the coffee break where he revealed Valerie Plame's name to her, rofl.

It would have been even more, if possible, delicious had he added the time Libby spent with Cruise and asking how did that fit into Libby's oh so important, busy time, lol.

[Warpy]

10. Doesn't seem like the defense did much defending

except to suggest an official at the top of our government was a space cadet who could barely remember how to tie his shoes, something that not only stretches his credibility to the breaking point but also makes us wonder what sort of threats he and Libby both got from Cheney. What a disappointing end to such a promising beginning.

They're all hoping this will end it, that Libby will be safely tucked away in Club Fed until his pardon in January 2009, and that nobody will pay any attention at all to the men behind the curtain.

[C_U_L8R]

11. And all that fundraising too !

Republicans never passed up an opportunity
to embezzle more cash. Depending on how
you look at it, Scotter either did or didn't
get his money's worth.

[aquart]

13. What defense? You see a defense? I don't.

But I'm sure it's there somewhere.

[Redbear]

14. I don't think rebuttal in this instance means putting on more witnesses. Its part of argument.

I believe the govt. goes first and sums up the evidence from their perspective, then the dfense presnets their argument and then govt gets a final argumnet to rebut the claims the defense made in their argument.

So the argumnet would go Zeidenberg, then Wells, then Fitzgerald.

[Crabby Appleton]

20. Jeralyn Merritt says no rebuttal by the government

"The Government is not going to present rebuttal witnesses."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeralyn-merritt/libby-to-rest-without-cal_b_41140.html

[damntexdem]

21. Most likely, both sides will make closing statements.

What they do in them is up to them.