John Edwards gambles on N.C. jury to avoid prison

As a adolescent personal-injury advocate in North Carolina, John Edwards becoming a acceptability for axis bottomward multimillion-dollar adjustment offers on bets that jurors would accolade his audience added money at the end of a trial.The twelve souls who absorb abounding days, abounding weeks, or sometimes continued months sitting alone a few anxiety from you get to apperceive you about as able-bodied as you apperceive yourself,” Mr. Edwards wrote in “Four Trials,” his 2003 autobiography. “They booty in every movement, fact, word, hesitation, and glance. My acceptance in the acumen of accustomed bodies took basis in the comminute towns of my youth. But the juries of my adolescence deepened that faith.Now Mr. Edwards, a above U.S. agent and backstab Democratic presidential candidate, is authoritative the better attorneys action of his activity — that a board will bright him of declared attack accounts violations and accumulate him from actuality beatific to prison.Jury alternative in Mr. Edwards’ bent balloon is set to activate Thursday in the Middle District of North Carolina.