Prosecutors compromised Stevens case

In his report, Schuelke found that prosecutors inflated the worth of the home renovations Stevens had done by more than three times the actual value, in an effort to paint a more egregious offense. Prosecutors withheld evidence from the defense about the true worth of the renovations, including testimony from the government’s key witness on the matter, said Stevens’s lawyers.

The prosecution also did not hand over evidence from Stevens’s defense team that could have discredited the government’s key witness by calling attention to his alleged relations with a teenage prostitute.

In his first months as attorney general, Eric Holder dismissed the indictment against Stevens and asked a federal judge to set aside the guilty verdict after reviewing evidence suggesting the DOJ’s witnesses might have perjured themselves and that the government withheld evidence from the defense team.

Holder ordered a separate report by the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which is expected to be completed soon. Senators are pushing hard for its public release. http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/218919-prosecutors-compromised-stevens-case

I wonder what is so much more special about the prosecutorial wrong doing in Steven's case that Mr. Holder stepped in, but has looked the other way with all the judicial wrong doing in the Siegelman case?