Selon les infos du site Politico, Edwards tentera sa chance dans un procès. Risqué...
"Two other sources in the Edwards camp also said that his own legal team is in deep discussions with their client — himself an almost legendary star of the North Carolina trial bar — over whether he should accept the risk and expense of a criminal trial or sacrifice his law license and possibly his freedom with a guilty plea that might nonetheless represent a real chance for reinventing his tattered public image.
There were widespread media reports Wednesday that Edwards was actively considering a plea agreement, and trying to discern the inner motives of the former Democratic vice presidential nominee — once surrounded by legions of aides and strategists but now relegated to relying on a small band of lawyers and diehard friends — is unquestionably difficult.
Sources contacted by POLITICO portray an Edwards camp that is split, but very open to a fight in court. Edwards’s legal team includes former White House Counsel Greg Craig, who is said to be pushing for a trial and arguing that prosecutors will not be able to win in the vague and untested terrain of campaign-finance law — as he made clear in a defiant statement to reporters Wednesday. Edwards’s longtime friend and lawyer Wade Smith, a fellow veteran of the North Carolina courts, is said to be more inclined to settle. And Edwards himself appears, associates say, to be sorely tempted to take his chances in an arena that made his career and his fortune."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55734.html
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