Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams spends more than he should, can’t keep track of his finances, and has a messy personal life, but that doesn’t make him a criminal, his lawyer told jurors in his corruption trial Tuesday.
The embattled district attorney’s lawyer, Thomas Burke, implored the jury of 10 women and two men during opening statements in the trial to look beyond the government’s “unprovable charges” of bribery, fraud and extortion—the result of what he has called a witch hunt—and see Williams as a man who made some “poor decisions,” but did nothing illegal.
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