Black faced his trial as an honest man By Father Raymond J. De Souza

Since the outset of what Lord Black refers to as "this cataract of horrors," I have believed that the American prosecutors were criminalizing what was essentially a management dispute. After following the trial closely, I was confirmed in that judgment. Now Lord Black has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail. It is a sign of how excessive the baying for Black's blood had become that the sentence is considered to be a good result for him.

The judge put some limits to the prosecutors' excess, who were asking that he be sentenced as if he were a habitual violent criminal. Actually, the prosecutors were arguing that he should be sentenced as if he was guilty of all the original charges, even those of which he was acquitted. But Judge St. Eve modestly restrained herself to sentencing Lord Black for only those things of which he had been actually convicted.

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