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November 15, 2015
By Alan Blinder
Lawyers for Donald L. Blankenship, (click here) the former coal executive accused of conspiring to violate federal safety standards
before 29 people were killed at the Upper Big Branch mine in West
Virginia, rested their case on Monday without calling any witnesses.
The
defense’s strategy, which emerged Monday morning in Federal District
Court in Charleston, surprised many legal experts who had been
monitoring the proceedings. Mr. Blankenship’s lawyers had been expected
to summon witness after witness in their effort to undercut the case,
which jurors have heard for more than a month. Closing arguments are
expected to begin Tuesday.
“It’s
clear that the defense team thinks that they inflicted enough body
blows in the government’s case to justify resting now,” said Michael B.
Hissam, a former federal prosecutor who worked on the Upper Big Branch
investigation and now, as a lawyer in private practice, represents
coal-industry clients. “This is an unusual strategy, though. The general
rule of thumb is that if you feel strongly about your defense, you put
your defense case on.”...
