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Judge Orders Release of Senator Stevens' Prosecution

Saturday, February 11, 2012 by Michael C. Rosenblat

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U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan who presided over the
prosecution of former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens has ordered that the report
which criticizes the prosecution be release on March 15, 2012.  Stevens was prosecuted and found guilty in
2008 but was ultimate vindicated prior to sentencing after the court learned that
the prosecutors mismanaged the case.  The
report is said to be 500 pages long and the court is delaying its release to
give the attorneys mentioned in the report time to file written objections.



 



Judge Sullivan quoting from the report stated that "the
investigation and prosecution of Sen. Stevens were permeated by the systematic
concealment of significant exculpatory evidence which would have independently
corroborated (his) defense and his testimony, and seriously damaged the
testimony and credibility of the government's key witness."



Senator
Grassley stated that “The public has a right to know what the special
investigator found and how pervasive the misconduct was inside the Public
Integrity Unit at the Justice Department. The American people need to hear the
truth about what happened, not simply trust the Justice Department’s internal
Office of Professional Responsibility review process."



Stevens
died in a plane crash August 9, 2010.



 

 
Posted at 20:54 PM
Topic: Criminal Law
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