Today, after Minnesota elections director Gary Poser and Minneapolis election judge Pamela Howell testify, Coleman will bring his case to a close.
Howell will be allowed to testify in the U.S. Senate election trial — but Coleman will have to pay for the delays caused by his attorneys’ mistakes in disclosing documents about Howell.
Howell began testifying in the trial last week, but stopped after it was revealed that Coleman’s attorneys violated the rules of civil procedure because they didn’t give Democrat Al Franken’s attorneys certain information about her.
Last week, the judges had barred her from testifying because of the problems, changed their minds and were willing to allow her to testify on Friday. But once she began her testimony, she revealed that there were more documents that the Coleman attorneys neglected to share.
The judges today decided to allow her to testify but also decided that Coleman would have to pay for the costs of the delay that his attorneys’ nondisclosure caused.
Coleman’s lawyers change their strategy every other day, they keep screwing up in court and now they’ve gotten fined for nondisclosure! That’s a crack legal team if I ever saw one. If I were a donor to Coleman’s recount effort, I would be thinking about asking for a refund - I wouldn’t want to see my money wasted on these clowns.
The brilliant strategy is working, Franken is not in the senate, and what did Norm do there anyway?