GUILT CAN BE COSTLY:

Judge deals Libby a setback: Once-classified defense evidence cannot be presented because the former White House aide won't be testifying, the jurist rules (Richard B. Schmitt, February 15, 2007, LA Times)

I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's decision not to testify in his perjury case damaged a key part of his defense Wednesday, when a federal judge ruled that his lawyers could not introduce once-classified details of his workload without Libby taking the witness stand.

The damage is obviously less severe than that which putting a guilty client on the stand would inflict.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 15, 2007 7:40 AM