by Bob Walsh
People Magazine reports that Lori Laughlin is "confident" that she will in fact be found NOT GUILTY in her not-yet scheduled trial for money laundering and fraud for her and her husband's part in the notorious college entrance cheating scandal. She has admitted publicly that what she did was 'wrong" but denies it was illegal.
My own guess, for what that may be worth, is that a jury will have trouble with the notion that you pay $500,000 to tweak a system when you believe that tweaking to be legal.
I understand there is a TON of physical evidence, including a substantial paper trail and recordings as well as emails, etc. It will be pretty much impossible for her to deny that she did what she is accused of doing. That does not mean the jury will not buy her IT WAS WRONG BUT IT WASN'T ILLEGAL excuse. It is after all a perfectly valid position. Whether or not it will fly is another thing altogether.
I can't help but wonder if she is so caught up in the part that she is starting to believe her own publicity, to her detriment. That being said the rumor mill says she is absolutely freaked by the possibility of actually going to the slammer, even briefly, and will go to whatever lengths she thinks necessary to avoid this outcome.
She isn't OJ. I doubt that jury nullification will work for her, but then what the hell do I know?
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