On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 06:58:39 GMT, "Frank Dresser" wrote:

I was listening to WBCQ, and heard some woman reading "News of the
Weird". Irwin Schiff made the cut.

"In a back-tax-collection case in Las Vegas in January, Schiff told the
court in a filing that he suffers from delusions, including a fantasy
that he is the only person qualified to interpret federal income tax
law."
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Judges have routinely (and suspiciously?) denied Schiff jury trials.
They come up with some lame excuse, but I think it boils down to them
being afraid that a jury might find that Schiff's interpretation of
the tax laws are correct......which would be a blow to the tax
extortion system in this country.

If Schiff is mentally unstable, he may be able to somehow "force" a
jury trial regardless of what a judge tries to get away with.

Good for him.