Rubashkin Attorney Objects To Trial Scheduling

Wants immigration trial held before bank fraud trial.

Trial Date Set In Iowa Slaughterhouse Case

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) ― A lawyer for a former top manager of a kosher slaughterhouse is protesting a judge's decision to hold a trial on financial charges before a trial on immigration charges.

U.S. District Court Judge Linda Reade wrote in an order Monday that a trial on financial charges against Agriprocessors Inc. and former top managers will begin on Sept. 15. Last month, Reade split 142 charges into two trials.

Guy Cook, an attorney for former manager Sholom Rubashkin, says the financial trial could include testimony from Rubashkin that could be held against him in an immigration trial.

Top managers and the company were indicted months after 389 people were arrested in a May 2008 immigration raid as part of an investigation that began in October 2007.

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[AGRI-vated Angel]

Breaking News-

Patriarch Rabbi Aaron Rubashkin requests he be appointed as Judge, presiding over upcoming trials involving his son, Sholom.

WHAT NEXT ? ? ? ? ?

[Shmarya]

Understand this stuff for what it is – laying the ground for an appeal.

[Proton Soup]

"the financial trial could include testimony from Rubashkin that could be held against him in an immigration trial."

a-ha! the real reason for wanting to split up the trial is revealed.

you can't use your testimony as both a sword and a shield.

[sage]

I believe it's time for Judge Linda Reade to recuse herself and have Judge Judy Sheindlin to serve as her replacement.

The RCF, then, won't know what has hit them.

[eye for an eye]

No need to get all excited, dah - the trial will get postphoned because this will be the time of all the Jewish Holidays and they will ask for more time. Its all a game. Don't have to be Orthodox to figure this one out! Or did I just give Rubashkins lawyers something to prepair and make a bundle on! Yes I did!

[Shmarya]

The court set the Jewish holiday schedule a few months ago:

http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2009/03/rubashkin-trial-jewish-holiday-schedule.html

The trial will start on Sept 15, unless some other reason stops it.

[FirstGenerationBavarianAmerican]

Judge Reade should talk to the folks involved with the Colin Ferguson trial out on Long Island (or at least research the trial.) Back then, they let Ferguson have everyting he wanted, because everyone knew he was nuts but nobody wanted an insanity plea. Ferguson served as his own attorney, which as everyone knows only a fool does. Ferguson's earliest parole date is August 6, 2309.

[justice seeker]

Yankton S. Dakota, Sandstone or Duluth Mn, are I believe the nearest Fed facilities for minimum security cons. Shoveling snow in an orange jumpsuit won't build character where there is none. Maybe we can get pictures to post on the internet.
Any thoughts on the length of sentence?

[Hometown Postville]

JS- If all he will get is community service, I want to see him on the streets of Postville sweeping up the trash with a toothbrush! Perhaps Agri could use him to clean out the gut tanks.

[Hometown Postville]

On second thought, the only thing that will ever bring SMR to humble knees is stripping him of his wealth and connections. And since he is supposedly such a hero among his Crown Heights cronies, they would not allow that to happen. How much has Bernie Madoff's wife had to adjust her lifestyle after losing a few of their properties and paying attorney fees? He may have lost his freedom but does she fear having her electricity turned off? Is she shopping at Goodwill? I doubt it. Just looking forward to those slammer visits.