Prosecutors will retry Mike Webb for insurance fraud Oct. 25 at 9a in Judge Spector's court, in room 733E in the King County courthouse. Opening statements should take place Oct 30, according to the prosecutor's spokesman Dan Donohoe.
In proceedings marked by Webb's behavior his own attorney termed "bizarre," the first trial was declared a mistrial Sept.14 after the jury was tainted when some of them witnessed Webb being handcuffed and put into a police car after an altercation on the street outside the courthouse during a lunch break.
The incident and the subsequent mistrial ramped up media interest of the case.
The new trial comes in fairly short order after the first fiasco. Prosecutor Nancy Balin had called Mike Webb's "mental deterioration," a delaying tactic, telling a reporter "Webb was aware that the jurors were watching" during his apprehension and that at least one witness said she heard Webb say: "This is going to end my trial."
If it were a delaying tactic, it apparently didn't work.
Balin's well-organized and clearly documented case with the squadrons of insurance and police investigators still awaits Webb.
We wonder if he'll change his defense. His story has changed several times over the months since his arrest; and his taking the stand as the only testimony in his defenseproved to be disastrous.
Read the whole Mike Webb soap opera here.
"weather in your ass".... how junior high....Suits thinks he's still in the barracks......he has a need to constantly pose as this edgy tough guy, whereas the real tough guys just do their job in the war and go home. Once they're home, they resume a fairly normal life, not one constantly revolving around "barracks bull" and endless "military mouth" talk.
Posted by: Tommy008 | September 21, 2006 at 06:54 PM
Why doesn't Mike just get it over with. These games aren't helping him.
Posted by: sclub | September 21, 2006 at 09:53 PM
I'm tired of the whole thing.
Posted by: joanie | September 21, 2006 at 11:09 PM
Pins and needles, Bla'M
What happened today? Did Halloween arrive early?
Posted by: mercifurious | October 25, 2006 at 10:32 PM
Stop wasting taxpayer money and throw out the Mike Webb case. They will never get a conviction. Webb is tricky. He will force as many mistrials as he needs. It will cost 50 times as much to prosecute that asshole as he defrauded.
Posted by: umo | October 26, 2006 at 10:09 AM
Mike, be a man, and don't try to trick and fake your way into a mistrial again. This is really beneath the big, bad "lion of the left" image that you tried so hard to build during your years at KIRO. You have a greed problem and it got the best of you, Mike. You're not the first or the last. Take your verdict and punishment like a man , for Christ sakes.
Posted by: Tommy008 | October 26, 2006 at 01:18 PM