on 5/4/00 6:53 AM, F. Leon Wilson at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Microsoft sure would love to convince Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to
> ignore the government's breakup plan. Now it thinks it has a way to get
> him to do just that.
>
> <http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/microsoft000504.html>
>
> May 4 -- Microsoft may ask a federal judge to disregard the government's
> proposal to break up the company by arguing that the Justice Department
> improperly based its plan on evidence not presented at trial.
Sorry, Leon. If you were on the verge of being sentenced based on evidence
introduced after the verdict, and without an opportunity to rebut, you would
think your due process rights were being violated.

And you would be right.

Just because Microsoft is bad, doesn't mean it loses those due process
rights.
--
Tresy Kilbourne
Seattle WA
"The Clinton-haters and their friends in the media are like a cargo cult:
they keep expecting something to fall from the sky, and years of
disappointment never seem to awaken any doubt." - Joe Conason