CARONA WALKS (SORT OF)….“America’s Sheriff” Michael Carona says it’s “an absolute miracle” that he was acquitted of five out of six corruption charges on Friday. 
But it turns out that the criminal code has more to do with it than the redemptive power of God:
In interviews after the trial, jurors said that they believed Carona had illegally accepted cash and gifts but that they were stymied by a statute of limitations that allowed them to consider only acts committed after late October 2002. The government had failed to prove that the conspiracy it alleged among Carona and his associates had involved any overt act after that, the jurors said.
“His hand was in the cookie jar. He was just quick enough to wipe the crumbs off his hands,” said juror Jerome Bell, 42, a truck driver from Anaheim.
Sometimes good timing is better than good luck. Anyway, here in The OC we prefer to look forward, not back.
