Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
No new trial for Brent Wilkes
"Self-serving declarations by a...criminal are unlikely to persuade a jury.”
Disgraced defense contractor Brent Wilkes, currently serving a 12-year sentence for his role in the Randy "Duke" Cunningham scandal, will not get the new trial he seeks, a federal appeals court ruled March 10.
Wilkes, who was convicted of funneling cash and other perks to Cunningham in order to secure $90 million in defense contracts for computer software and scanning business ADCS, argued that "new evidence" had come to light, including a statement from Cunningham that he had not taken bribe money from Wilkes, according to a Courthouse News Service report.
A Pasadena appeals court, however, found that the purportedly new evidence was in fact available to Wilkes at the time of his original trial, and that it failed to "establish a probability of acquitting him."
"Self-serving declarations by a convicted criminal are unlikely to persuade a jury, especially where those statements are directly contradicted by Cunningham's own sworn statements at his plea colloquy," wrote judge Milan Smith on behalf of a three-judge panel considering the appeal.
Cunningham was sentenced to eight years, four months, and ordered to pay $1.8 million in restitution for the estimated $2.4 million he received illegally. He was released from prison and sent to a halfway house after serving less than seven years and has been free from custody since June 2013.
Here's something you might be interested in.
No new trial for Brent Wilkes
"Self-serving declarations by a...criminal are unlikely to persuade a jury.”
No new trial for Brent Wilkes
"Self-serving declarations by a...criminal are unlikely to persuade a jury.”
Disgraced defense contractor Brent Wilkes, currently serving a 12-year sentence for his role in the Randy "Duke" Cunningham scandal, will not get the new trial he seeks, a federal appeals court ruled March 10.
Wilkes, who was convicted of funneling cash and other perks to Cunningham in order to secure $90 million in defense contracts for computer software and scanning business ADCS, argued that "new evidence" had come to light, including a statement from Cunningham that he had not taken bribe money from Wilkes, according to a Courthouse News Service report.
A Pasadena appeals court, however, found that the purportedly new evidence was in fact available to Wilkes at the time of his original trial, and that it failed to "establish a probability of acquitting him."
"Self-serving declarations by a convicted criminal are unlikely to persuade a jury, especially where those statements are directly contradicted by Cunningham's own sworn statements at his plea colloquy," wrote judge Milan Smith on behalf of a three-judge panel considering the appeal.
Cunningham was sentenced to eight years, four months, and ordered to pay $1.8 million in restitution for the estimated $2.4 million he received illegally. He was released from prison and sent to a halfway house after serving less than seven years and has been free from custody since June 2013.
Comments