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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (15495)	9/22/2007 4:09:31 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224744

Hsu is not running for office.

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (15495)	9/22/2007 4:38:14 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 224744

Hsu's attorney goes on offense 1992 CONVICTION : FUGITIVE DONOR WANTS TO RECANT NO-CONTEST PLEA After weeks of embarrassing disclosures and new criminal charges, an attorney for Democratic financier Norman Hsu mounted a counteroffensive Friday, calling for dismissal of Hsu's 1992 fraud conviction and blasting the FBI for tactics that led to new fraud charges this week. Noting that the judge who accepted Hsu's 1992 no-contest plea is now retired and unavailable to sentence him, defense attorney James Brosnahan said he will withdraw that plea and may take the case to trial. But one expert said Hsu faces an uphill battle. And authorities appear to have a mountain of evidence against Hsu, a former high-rolling political fundraiser who appeared in disappeared 15 years agoshackles and rumpled jail clothing during a brief hearing Friday in San Mateo County Superior Court. "If he entered a plea, he has no right to withdraw that plea," said law Professor Robert Weissberg, director of Stanford University's Criminal Justice Center. "He can hope the court will be somewhat sympathetic to him, but he's in a weak position." Hsu, who raised more than $1.5 million for Democratic campaigns in California and New York in recent years, is being held without bail in a Redwood City jail, where he was arraigned Friday on a warrant issued after he fled the state two weeks ago. At Brosnahan's request, Judge Robert Foiles scheduled the hearing to continue Friday next week. The 56-year-old Hsu originally had pleaded no contest to grand theft after California authorities charged , before he was sentenced in that case. State authorities say they didn't realize he was operating new business ventures in Southern California and New York until recent news reports drew attention to his past. mercurynews.com