NO CHANGE IN MERLINO STANCE, SCHRATWEISER 100% WRONG, AGAIN.

It's been very quiet since the Joey Merlino trial ended in a mistrial.  There has been wide speculation on whether the Government would retry the case or now.  As I have stated on the radio and over on twitter @realmobtalk7,  until I got complete confirmation on a few things I would just guess at what I thought it was.  I now have 100% confirmation.

Dave Schratweiser has been all over social media for Fox News 29 in Philly claiming that Merlino and his attorneys were "negotiating some sort of terms, or dialogue to reach an agreement in the case versus Merlino."  None of that is true, via someone who knows exactly what the situation is.  This person said "he's crazy."

In Schratweiser's own way he was tongue-in-cheeking some sort of half dribbled gossip, to lead people in a few different directions.  News day must be slow in South Philly.  What is factual, is that if their are discussions it certainly has nothing to do with a plea, arrangement or agreement in any sense.

In most cases, dependent on the jury count, which I don't believe the numbers Jerry Capeci and George Anastasia put out, it would lead one to believe that the Feds may likely retry the case.  The issue will be the same thing they had in the first trial.  No evidence.  To me numbers don't matter.  I was there almost every single day of that trial and I never heard one audio tape, saw one text or transcript that pointed in the direction of guilt on behalf of Joey Merlino.  This is simply rats doing what they do best and thank God the jury had enough sense to see through the lies and distortion the Government was trying and failed to prove.

What happens from here likely is two scenarios for Joey.  Either the Government tries this again, and wastes God knows how much money on bullshit charges, and relies once again on rats who couldn't keep their stories straight, or they let Joey walk away.  I would think 46 of 49 defendants taking plea deals would be enough for them to brag, but apparently it isn't.  Judge Sullivan will likely hear arguments(was scheduled for March 6th. but not sure if that's changed) but right now that's sort of up in the air.  If there are arguments it will likely be on two fronts.  Edwin Jacobs asking for the judge not to waste more money on trumped up bullshit
charges, and the government will argue based on the jury count they want to retry the case.  It's left up to Judge Sullivan to make that decision, and we will await to hear that answer.

In my opinion, I feel the same way I did two weeks ago.  Joey did nothing wrong.