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CNN Headline News
Interview with Susan Candiotti
Re: Florida Elections
Date: November 2006
Kendall Coffey: It defies reason that we’re back in a critically important election with a sub-microscopic margin and a system that went wrong once again.
CNN - Lou Dobbs Tonight with Kitty Pilgrim
12/19/06
Democracy at Risk – Christine Jennings
Kendall Coffey: The experts are before Judge Gary right now, Kitty, presenting evidence on whether or not we’re going to get access to the electronic machines and the electronic software. And strikingly both experts agree that there were 14,000 suppressed votes, 14,000 votes that got diverted, in effect, that if they had been counted and if they had been validated, Chris would have won by 3000 votes. The only controversy is what went wrong and our testimony shows the very significant likelihood of machine failure. That’s why we’re in court right now.
WFOR CBS4 News with Gary Nelson
RE: US vs. Zarabozo
Miami-Ft. Lauderdale Market
7/22/08 6:17 pm
Kendall Coffey: The defense has filed a motion that has just blown up in its face.
Kendall Coffey: Why a court would want to even consider admitting any of these tests in this case now would certainly be unfathomable.
Kendall Coffey: The judge may want to ask the attorneys why the court was only presented with half of the truth about these lie detector tests.
CNN - Lou Dobbs Tonight with Kitty Pilgrim
12/19/06
Democracy at Risk – Christine Jennings
Kendall Coffey: The experts are before Judge Gary right now, Kitty, presenting evidence on whether or not we’re going to get access to the electronic machines and the electronic software. And strikingly, both experts agree that there were 14,000 suppressed votes, 14,000 votes that got diverted, in effect, that if they had been counted and if they had been validated, Chris would have won by 3000 votes. The only controversy is what went wrong and our testimony shows the very significant likelihood of machine failure. That’s why we’re in court right now.
WEDU Studios
Program: CNW
11-12-06
Re: Borat, The Movie
STUDIO HOST: Are there merits to these complaints?
KENDALL COFFEY: Pretty darn uphill. I’m sure that it was a humiliating experience for a lot of folks but I’m equally sure that theirs is one of the most airtight releases signed by every one of them that high-priced lawyers could draw. How do you climb a mountain that tall? You allege fraud, you allege that you were had and sometimes, if there were a lot of other alleged victims saying the same thing, it gives you a little bit of a ski lift up part of that mountain. But at the end of the day there is a document that is probably going to cover everything legally that the studio needs to have covered.
HOST: I have to believe the studio was pretty meticulous with that. How much momentum do they have when two, three, four lawsuits are filed?
KENDALL COFFEY: The more lawsuits, the more alleged victims -- certainly the stronger the claim. You start out with the he-said vs. the-document-said and the documents usually win. On the other hand, if there are a whole lot of victims, somebody’s going to look at it much closer and there is an outside chance that if, in fact, there is a fraud proven sufficiently to the trier of fact, they might be able to knock out the releases. It doesn’t happen very often.
WEDU Studios
Program: CNW
11-12-06
Re: O.J. SIMPSON
HOST: Let’s move onto O.J. Simpson and his new book “If I Did It”. Any legal ramifications for him from this book?
KENDALL COFFEY: Well, certainly there’s going to be a big focus on whatever money is left to be paid by the publisher. Presumably he got some kind of advance. That may be long gone with the wind. On the other hand if there are particular payments that are due in the future, I don’t care what kind of Cayman Island nominee entities that may have been assigned to, I think the victims are going to have a real shot at seizing whatever the payments that are due from the publisher are and getting them. After all, they have been owed a lot of money and crime is not supposed to pay.
HOST: What are the possibilities of perjury charges?
KENDALL COFFEY: The tough part of it is going to be is the statute of limitations. As we know there is no statute of limitations for murder. But that’s the rap he’s beaten. In terms of other things, it’s going to be very tough. Most of the things are too old to be charged criminally at this point.
WEDU Studios
Program: CNW
11-12-06
Re: Mark Foley
HOST: This investigation has gone from a preliminary inquiry to a criminal investigation against Mark Foley. What would have happened there to merit that change?
KENDALL COFFEY: Very bad news for Mark Foley. He’s been relying on a maybe-he-looked-but-never-touched defense. Maybe he had some overly friendly e-mails, but it was all more aspirational than operational. Clearly, the Florida authorities have now seen some frankly explicit e-mails that they think give them a basis to explore criminal charges. And there are a lot of different theories in Florida, but bottom line is Mark Foley could be big trouble.
HOST: What kind of trouble? What kind of charges might he face?
KENDALL COFFEY: Well, there are two different theories. The first is that the explicit e-mails were actually part of an attempt to entice a minor. That requires some sort of overt act. It requires in effect that he did something such as trying to arrange a meeting. On the other hand, Florida has another kind of law that’s much much easier to bring charges on. If the material is sexually explicit, directed to a minor and, if both Mark Foley and the minor were in the state of Florida at the time, you have a theory for charging, in those circumstances, a crime even if Foley never left his house to try to meet the supposed victim.
CBS/The Early Show with Bianca Solorzano (Bahamas)
Feb. 23, 2006
RE: Anna Nicole Smith
KENDALL COFFEY: This could be a wild free-for-all jurisdiction. California court took jurisdiction first. Now the ball is in the Florida court. Meanwhile the baby’s in the Bahamas. So this could be a bouncing ball that goes across the United States and across the Caribbean.
CNN Int’l
8/7/08 | 5:30 pm
RE: Hamdan
KENDALL COFFEY: No one knows better than a military panel the difference between a general and a general’s driver.
KENDALL COFFEY: Hamden may have been in a shark tank but he was found to be one of the smaller fish.
KENDALL COFFEY: A strong vindication of the fairness of military tribunals. Rather than one size fits all justice, this system can clearly distinguish between the less culpable and the most credible.
CNN Headline News
Interview with Susan Candiotti
Re: Florida Elections / Sarasota Congressional Race (8,000 Missing Votes)
Date: November 2006
KENDALL COFFEY: It defies reason that we’re back in a critically important election with a sub-microscopic margin and a system that went wrong once again.
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