John Rowland’s back on center stage, and, once again, jurors will be told half the truth, and anything but the entire truth. Why? Why does the government get to ask for accountability while playing hide the ball with jurors?

I am not talking about the startling revelation that prosecutors erred and forwarded to the defense team material the government should never have had at all. I am referring, of course, to the government’s giving to the Rowland defense team privileged communications between a cooperating witness and the witness’s lawyers, Hubert Santos and his daughter.

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