MikeD, you're right about them charging him solely with the intent to get him to strike a deal, but the deal was to get him to testify against his friends and since he wouldn't give them up they charges him with murder. The plan backfired obviously. The feds are well known for these tactics as they don't have to answer to the public in the same that a D.A does. The D.A. in Atlanta was just down right stupid. I happen to have an associate that was invloved in one of the Edwards trials that was linked the exact same way. He was a corporate attorney who simply got a call from one of his clients one day asking him to form a corporation and name him as president and that when they had their first board meeting they would elect all of the officers. THe attorney did that and then had no involvement whatsoever in any way, shape or form thereafter. The copr. eneded up being the one Edwards was using in that hospital scam. The feds told him that he had to give up info on Edwards and he told them he had never met Edwards and that he didn't know anything else about the corporation as he just filed the initial papers, They indicted him along with theother 6 or 7 defendents and he had to go to trial. When the porcesecution rested their case the judge rules a directed verdict on this man as the feds did not even mention him in their case. They just wanted to try and ruin his reputation and cost him $100,000. They didn't ruin his rep but they did cost him the time and money. Try never to mess with the feds, ever.
Ray Lewis wasn't inocent. They had that tape of him stabbing that guy saying "My name is Ray Lewis. I play middle linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens. My address is ... My social security number is ... I am definately stabbin this dude." and so on.