She's ba-a-a-a-ck -Jane Orie, complaining of self-inflicted wounds

[Divernan]

Compared to the multiple tragedies Corbett is inflicting upon the Commonwealth, the saga of the Orie Sisters provides some comic relief. As a matter of fact, Rossini's final, light comic opera, currently being performed at the New York Met, is titled "Le Comte Ory". If you check out the pictures accompanying the review, you will see that the ladies of the ensemble have hair NEARLY as big as the Orie girls! (But the stage makeup is not nearly as heavy.) Quelle coincidence!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/arts/music/bartlett-sher-directs-rossinis-le-comte-ory-at-the-metropolitan-opera.html

DA responds to Orie's attempt to prevent retrial
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
The Associated Press

An Allegheny County prosecutor says state Sen. Jane Orie's motions to prevent a retrial on corruption charges -- or at least remove the judge and prosecution from the case -- are either frivolous or amount to complaints about self-inflicted wounds.

Ms. Orie's attorney filed several motions this month, including joining the prosecution in asking Allegheny County Judge Jeffrey Manning to delay her April 11 retrial. Judge Manning scheduled it following a mistrial he declared March 3 after finding two defense documents used to discredit a key prosecution witness were forgeries

But Deputy District Attorney Law Claus says Ms. Orie's requests are meritless, largely because he says the defense was responsible for not turning over the forged documents sooner.

The main defense argument is that the prosecution raised the forgery issue only after realizing Ms. Orie was likely to be acquitted, which the DA denies.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11089/1135720-100.stm#ixzz1I7JckETw

[JPZenger]

1. She tried to claim prosecutors doctored her exhibits

When she was caught submitting crude forgeries of documents involving the key prosecution witness, she actually claimed that the prosecution doctored them.

[Divernan]

2. Even crazier, she had verified the accuracy of those forgeries on the witness stand.

Oh yes, under oath, she testified they were accurate and she recalled them!