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Ragland: Trial's second day of tapes tends toward the tedious

10:38 PM CDT on Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Prosecutors have played titillating snippets of secret tapes.

Defense attorneys have painted their clients as well-meaning choirboys selectively prosecuted by FBI agents whose case relies heavily on a scorned developer out for revenge and to save his own hide.

Presiding U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn has pulled out the white noise machine, a technological toy that hums like a small snow-cone machine and enables Lynn, with the push of a button, to effectively drown out the sidebar conversations she has with attorneys.

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