The Times reports that before South Africa’s presidential election this month, prosecutors dropped charges against candidate Jacob Zuma, saying their case was tainted. The Times reports that after a controversial trial held during the the 2008 election season for Alaska’s hotly-contested Senate seat resulting in a guilty verdict, prosecutors today dropped charges against Sen. Ted Stevens, […]
Month: April 2009
Book Banning
Sean Parnell of the Center for Competitive Politics got this letter to the editor published in today’s Times. The letter refers to a piece of government lawyer Malcolm L. Stewart’s argument before the Supreme Court in Citizens United. Defending campaign finance restrictions that limited the ability of a documentary about Hillary Rodham Clinton from being […]
Stevens Case Wreckage
According to this report, a lot of lawyers are dismayed over how the case against Sen. Ted Stevens was handled. Most alarming to these lawyers was the prosecutors’ repeated failure to disclose information that might have helped the defense despite the sanctity in which lawyers are taught to hold those obligations. In an example of […]