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I just wish President Obama would get involved with this case

E Mail I got today

Your messages to President Obama, Congress, and to Attorney General Holder are still needed. Since I last wrote you, two powerful letters from prominent legal voices have been written to Attorney General Holder and I wanted to share some of what they said with you.

Professor Bennett Gershman of Pace University School of Law, the preeminent scholar in the field of prosecutorial misconduct and author of Prosecutorial Misconduct, said he has "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" and that, "as an example of bad faith prosecution, the Siegelman case may be without parallel."

Put simply, he said, "There is no better example of the corrosive effect on the reputation of the Department of Justice...than the prosecution of Don Siegelman."

What Professor Gershman understands, and told Attorney General Holder in no uncertain terms, is that this is about far more than my prosecution; it's about the larger problems my prosecution represents. If we want a Department of Justice that represents the interest of the people rather than a political ideology, there needs to be an investigation into the circumstances surrounding my case. I'm confident the end result will be a dismissal of the charges against me, but more importantly, it will finally clear the air after 8 long years of politically motivated prosecutions.

I hope you'll share this message with your elected representatives and encourage them to join our call for an investigation.

Email your members in Congress today, and encourage them to seek an investigation by the Department of Justice of the prosecutorial misconduct my case!

Following Professor Gershman's, another powerful letter reached the desk of Eric Holder. This one was from the former presiding U.S. District Court Judge in the Northern District of Alabama, U.W. Clemon, who initially dismissed the charges against me. In the letter, he told Attorney General Holder my case "was the most unfounded criminal case over which I have presided in my entire judicial career" and was "completely without legal merit."

These two letters show, along with the messages you and 75 former state Attorneys General have been sending, that we are starting to gather steam. We're raising awareness about the problems at the Department of Justice and making sure that, going forward, the kind of political prosecution I fell victim too never happens again. As more voices like Professor Gershman and Judge Clemon join us, we'll gain more momentum and force our representatives to look into the violations of justice perpetrated by the Bush Administration and Karl Rove.

I need you now, more than ever, to keep the heat on and keep pushing for justice.

Email your House and Senate Members now -- and urge them to seek an investigation by the Department of Justice of the prosecutorial misconduct in "The Siegelman Case."

Thank you so much for your continuing support. Together, we can win this fight.

Sincerely,



Don Siegelman
Governor of Alabama 1999-2003
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