Socrates convicted again in modern mock trialIn benefit for Hellenic museum, philosopher is fined for corrupting youths, disrespecting Greek gods
By Stacy St. Clair, Chicago Tribune reporter
February 1, 2013
Patrick Fitzgerald has taken down two governors, numerous mobsters and a few terrorists.
But he may have met his match in a 70-year-old Greek philosopher with a big mouth.
Fitzgerald, a former U.S. attorney who gained a national reputation for corruption-busting before going into private practice last year, prosecuted Socrates on Thursday as part of a mock trial intended to raise money for the National Hellenic Museum in Chicago.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... rint.story(Not surprised that in today's time they would bring up money in the sense that Fitzgerald said beforehand that he (Socrates) refused a plea which would have saved the people the cost of a trial.)
(I go with Historians who have acquitted Socrates in the past, and I admit that I'm also I'm biased against the prosecutor who helped put a couple of governors away. I think in one case evidence was withheld and how do we know that some of it may have implicated America's new God in some way. Just speculation but since we didn't get to hear them we won't ever know. And they put the guy away for 14 years so that should let it all get swept under the rug.)