Will the defendant please cry us a river? Maybe it's part of the Kennedy curse. I'm referring to the family's well know propensity to drive under the influence and leave the scene of the accident. At her trial the niece of the hero of Chappaquiddick wasted no time taking the jury back to Camelot. Never mind that her childhood had nothing to do with the charges against her.
Coyly her lawyer asked her to explain why she grew up in Virginia, as if anyone gives a damn. “Daddy was the attorney general during the civil rights movement and then a senator", explained Kerry Kennedy.
Then more biography; “I have 10 brothers and sisters. My mother raised us because my father died when I was 8,” she said. Her lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, asked how her father died.
“He was killed while running for president,” she reminded the jurors.
One supposes a more aggressive prosecutor would have asked the sainted defendant why she, a mother of three, had an extramarital affair with a polo player while she was married to Governor Cuomo but the jurors probably already know that adultery is also part of the Kennedy legacy and the case boils down as to why she couldn't read a prescription label. Kennedy claims she accidentally took Ambien thinking it was thyroid medication.
Getting to the nitty gritty Kennedy would gladly plead to the leaving the scene charge but the driving under influence of drugs rap, although only a misdemeanor, could hamper her international travel and impair the invaluable work she is doing for the oppressed people of the world. Yes, the poor would be ones who would suffer if she is convicted. Again, please cry us a river.
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She got acquitted. No tears today.
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