Morning Docket: 08.29.07
* Slate debates Sen. Craig's arrest and plea. [New York Times]
* DC Madam seeks new counsel. [CNN Poli-Tick]
* Federal court, using wooden gavel, upholds NYC metal bat ban. [ESPN]
* Artist arrested for burning Burning Man man. [MSNBC]

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DATE: 08/29/2007 09:32:14 AM
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the DC madam link is not working
The link URL really is:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/08/28/alleged-dc-madam-wants-to-fire-second-defense-attorney/
You just have to type it in or copy/paste.
The actual text at the link:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The alleged "D.C. madam" who is accused of running a high-dollar prostitution ring around the nation's capital is asking a federal judge to dismiss a prominent attorney the court had appointed to replace a public defender in her criminal case.
Deborah Jeane Palfrey wants to represent herself with the help of a lawyer who is representing her in a civil case but is not licensed to practice criminal law in Washington. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler takes up the request Tuesday at a status hearing.
But prosecutors filed court papers Monday opposing what Palfrey calls "hybrid representation," since the attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley, cannot directly defend his client against criminal charges.
A grand jury indicted Palfrey March 1 on money laundering and racketeering charges in connection with her former business — Pamela Martin & Associates escort service. She pleaded not guilty to the charges on March 2.
Sibley is representing Palfrey in a civil suit against several women who once worked for her firm. He is known for helping peddle to the media thousands of pages of telephone records with numbers of clients her business had called.
One of the numbers belonged to U.S. Senator David Vitter. When the link was revealed earlier this summer, the Louisiana Republican said calls with Palfrey's firm were made prior to his election to the Senate in 2004, and that he and his wife had already dealt with what he termed a "serious sin" privately, through marriage counseling and confession to a Roman Catholic priest.
Vitter is the first lawmaker entangled in the case, although State Department official Randall Tobias resigned in May after confirming he patronized Palfrey's business.
Palfrey's most recent criminal attorney has been Preston Burton, whose high-profile clients have included Monica Lewinsky, Aldridge Ames, and Robert Hanssen. Burton is also a former assistant U.S. attorney in Washington.
A judge earlier granted Palfrey's request to dismiss public defender A.J. Kramer. In both requests she cited "irreconcilable differences." Burton declined to elaborate when CNN asked for details.
Palfrey hopes to show that her business was a legitimate, legal escort service for clients during a period of more than a dozen years.
– CNN's Paul Courson
Deborah Palfrey deserves the Pemberton Award for Good Governance.
Palfrey list is like the black book of 1918.
That trial of the century is deleted from all books.
The list there had 47000 names.
The list here is 46000 phone records.
The listed are not womenisers or machos or ordinary sinners.
They are power brokers, gay, lutheran agitators of all wars.
These wretches are only the dirty cover for the real pimps deep underground.
A curse on kingpins, Justice Charles Darling then and judge Adolph Kessler now.
Noel Pemberton-Billing
Trial of the Century 1918
Song of Deborah
...They chose new gods; then was war in the gates.. Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song.. the LORD made you have dominion over the mighty... Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of justice against the mighty... Have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two? So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD.. And the land rest forty years. Judges 5.
Deborah Palfrey deserves the Pemberton Award for Clean Governance.
Palfrey list is like the Black Book of 1918.
That Trial of the century is deleted from all books.
The list there had 47000 names.
The list here has 46000 phone bills.
The listed are not womenizers, machos or ordinary sinners.
They are power brokers, gay lutheran shock and awe blitzkrieg agitators of all wars and all panics.
These wretches are one dirty cover to the real pimps deep undercover.
A curse on the kingpinps, Justice Charles Darling then and Judge Adolph Limbough Kessler now.
Noel Pemberton-Billing
Trial of the Century 1918