We now have both witness and exhibit lists for the McDonnell trial.
Richmond Federal Courthouse
Exhibits
Both the prosecution and defense appear to have submitted exhibit lists indicating 615 exhibits per side. If you want to know what is going to testified about happen at trial, start at prosecution exhibit 1 and read through to the end, then do the same on the defense side.
Witnesses
Thanks to the Richmond Times Dispatch we have the witness lists for the defense (121 witnesses) and the prosecution (61 witnesses).
There is overlap between the lists, and many witnesses are likely listed “just in case.”
Some unexpected names that stand out at first blush:
For the prosecution:
The McDonnells’ children
Members of Johnnie Williams’ family
For the defense:
Some of Gov. McDonnell’s former counsel.
Former Gov. Wilder
Three different Kilgores
William Howell
Ken Cuccinelli
Due to the procedures put in place by Judge Spencer, filing of these lists was delayed until now.
It is obvious from these lists alone that an estimate of six weeks for this monstrosity is reasonable. In the next couple of days we will find out if the jury is going to be sequestered for this entire trial, functionally suspending the lives of our fellow citizens.
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*Groan* A nice Democrat aperitif for the coming Nov. election; while also being a handy cover-up and distraction for when McAwful soon unilaterally expands Medicaid. On top of this scandal being a BIG reason we lost last Nov. => THANKS A LOT, MCDONNELL!!
Defense should call former Governor Warner.
What question would you like to ask the former Governor?
Jim,
I would hate to speculate and compromise any crazy defense strategy, but of course there is more than recent former Democratic Governor who might be called.
But here’s a question since you asked:
How many Virginia Governors can you fit into a court room?
Look whether Republican or Democrat, if they did what McDonnell admits to, they should be prosecuted in my opinion. I doubt whether Warner did anything like McDonnell did. Why would he need to, he was already worth hundreds of millions of dollars? If Kaine did something like McDonnell, tell us about it, let’s get him prosecuted. People keep saying the Democrats did this and that but they never put up? Put up or shut up?
Jim,
Like I said I wouldn’t presume to speculate on the strategy or the questions. Interesting start for the trial, I don’t plan on following it much. You seem ready to provide coverage in the comment section here.