A Raleigh jury has found Kevin Geddings guilty of five counts of wire fraud. He faces up to 100 years in prison. He will get much less.
Now what?
This thing has never made much sense. Why did Geddings go to trial? Why did prosecutors put Speaker Jim Black on the stand to ask him about an affair with former staffer Meredith Norris only veer quickly away from the question? Will the lotto ever outgrow the shady circumstances of its birth? And will this matter hurt Democrats statewide at the polls next month?
Let the spin begin.
