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 […]
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Voiding the Stevens Case
The Times reports on yesterday’s DOJ deision to “void” the case against Sen. Ted Stevens. The case was one of the most high profile and bitterly fought in a string of corruption investigations into current and former members of Congress. But Justice Department lawyers told a federal court Wednesday that they had discovered a new […]
DOJ to Drop Case Against Sen. Stevens
The case against Sen. Ted Stevens will be dropped, according to NPR. According to Justice Department officials, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has decided to drop the case against Stevens rather than continue to defend the conviction in the face of persistent problems stemming from the actions of prosecutors. The NPR site has Holder’s statement […]