Dan Rodricks: Getting inside the mind of John Leopold

Testimony in county executive corruption case in Annapolis provides anatomy of a tawdry political affair

Friday afternoon in a spacious Annapolis courtroom with a flat-screen monitor, Dr. Roy E. Bands Jr., board-certified orthopedic surgeon, presented a side view of John Leopold's lumbar region — how his lower spine, abdomen and bladder looked in January 2010. Too bad the doctor didn't have a scan of the Anne Arundel County executive's prefrontal cortex.

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