Shareholders rights upheld in Lord Blacks trial which has conservatives all in a tizzy. Since they favored the aristocratic pretensions of robber baron Black rather than the rights of the 'little guy and gal'.
For Prince, 58, Black's fate was sealed in a 2002 shareholders' meeting.
As prosecutors played the recording, and she heard angry investors lambasting Black about why he and other high-ranking Hollinger executives were receiving millions in non-compete payments, Prince decided she would do everything she could to convict him of fraud.
In fact, if it were up to her, Black would also be going down on an additional fraud count. Had that happened, she said, it might have shown the pattern of criminal activity jurors needed to convict the fallen media baron of the most serious charge of all – racketeering.
Despite efforts to avoid media during the trial, jurors overheard in an elevator one day that some Canadian media had called them a "blue collar" jury and critiqued their appearance. "When we were deadlocked, one of the jurors, she's a teacher, gave us a pep talk," said Prince. "She said, 'They're calling us country bumpkins. They think we're too stupid to figure out this case.' And it brought us all together. We were going back in there with a unanimous verdict," she said.
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Conrad Black, Lord Black, Barbara Amiel, Peter Worthington, Toronto Sun, Canada, Chicago, Hollinger
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as a canadian, i'm disappointed that black was never charged with anything under canadian law in spite of a long record of at the very least questionable behaviour. the alberta government turned a blind eye when he broke the strike at the calgary herald. alberta has so few labor laws as it is you'd think they could have enforced at least a few.
i think our business law here is far more lax and politicized than it is in the usa.
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