Please join 75 state Attorneys General in urging Eric Holder to investigate prosecutorial misconduct in the case of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.
Professor Bennett Gershman of Pace University School of Law, the preeminent scholar in the field of prosecutorial misconduct, who wrote the book, "Prosecutorial Misconduct", said: "I have never encountered another prosecution in which it appears so clearly that the prosecutors were zealously bent on pursuing an individual, rather than on a crime...As an example of bad faith prosecution, the Siegelman case may be without parallel."
"There is no better example of the corrosive effect on the reputation of the Department of Justice...than the prosecution of Don Siegelman."
And the retired Chief U.S. District Court Judge in the Northern District of Alabama, U.W. Clemon said: the Siegelman case in the Northern District "was the most unfounded criminal case over which I have presided in my entire judicial career." The case was "completely without legal merit."
Please urge Attorney General Holder to investigate the prosecutorial misconduct in the Siegelman case and end this outrageous injustice.
Areas of misconduct in the Siegelman case include:
- Prosecuted for something that has never been a crime.
- Selectively prosecuted.
- Witnesses were coached, false testimony given and evidence withheld.
- Brought to trial one month before the Democratic Primary.
- The prosecutor is the wife of Karl Rove's best friend and Siegelman's opponent's campaign manager!
- Sworn testimony that Karl Rove was involved.
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About Me
- LanceM
- I am a person who was raised as a full-fledged "Republican"... in fact, I named my middle son (now age 29) 'Reagan'. But, within 3 years of that I began to wake up to the misrepresentations then lies and later the criminal behavior of "my" party. Eventually, I felt I had to do something to help. These 'blogs' are that attempt.