February 8, 2007 at 16:22:44

Eyewitness: Watada Judge Panicked and Bailed

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Faced with the reality that the statements were not necessarily a final finding of guilt, and that Watada had to be allowed by law to explain, the judge suggested Watada did not understand the stipulation, repeating this numerous times to no avail. He then made the cryptic non-sequitur "I'm not seeing we have a meeting of the minds here. And if there is not a meeting of the minds, there's not a contract".

This, along with his anxious demeanor suggest the judge simply declared a mistrial to extricate himself from a sticky position, apparently wanting above all costs to avoid putting the legality of the Iraq war on trial in his courtroom. For more details and the precedent for double jeopardy applying here, see http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020807A.shtml

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