U.S. attorneys fallout seeps into the courts

Source: Los Angeles Times

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Defense lawyers in a growing number of cases are raising questions about the motives of government lawyers who have brought charges against their clients. In court papers, they are citing the furor over the U.S. attorney dismissals as evidence that their cases may have been infected by politics.

Justice officials say those concerns are unfounded and constitute desperate measures by desperate defendants. But the affair has given defendants and their lawyers some new energy, which is complicating life for the prosecutors.

Missouri lawyers have invoked the controversy in challenging last year's indictment of a company owned by a prominent Democrat, on suspicion of violating federal wage and hour laws. The indictment, which came two months after the owner announced that she was running for political office, was obtained by a Republican U.S. attorney who also has been criticized because he charged workers for a left-leaning political group on the eve of the 2006 midterm election.

The lawyer for an alleged child pornographer recently defended his client at a federal trial in Minnesota in part by questioning the motives of the Republican U.S. attorney, who has come under scrutiny in the congressional investigation into the prosecutor purge.


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...reap the whirlwind.

NGU.

let's hope it carries every one of Shurb's appointees to Oz.

or the prison from the HBO show?

Cause imagining them in the HBO Oz is awesome!!

They could have their own little gang, rig votes for the prison talent show, and then get shanked in the cafeteria.

but yes I think the HBO OZ would be appropriate.
Glenda would just incinerate them on arrival at Baum's Oz.
There would be better justice at the other Oz.

suspicion to have.

we now have several of these types of instances that will have to be squelched if we are to continue to live in a democratic republic.

have you noticed the top 3 excuses of the bushies?

#3 - "No one could imagine __________ would occur"

#2 - "We didn't know"

#1 - "I don't recall / remember"


combine them and you have an entire press conference statement/release

"No one could have imagined that we didn't know that we can't remember"

:sarcasm:

You can't convict us for being stoopid.

..The new Admintistration mantra.

"It would be less divisive to the country to commute the sentence."

The boys always take care of their own.

white, male preferential treatment.

something needs to be done about that. Secret handshakes are one thing, destroying humanity is another.

I think I know what needs to be done. But it's not going to be easy. Obviously, we need to use the same kind of media trajectory that the right used to destroy welfare programs by creating the odious "welfare queen."

Somehow, we need to convince white middle america, that they too are victims from these reckless people.

It seem a contradiction of terms at first, and then the depravity of it all begins to sink in.

I don't know if Middle America can get their brain around this.

the federal prosecutor's office.

this is all apart of the door that was opened

The judge always asks a prospective juror a question along the lines of "Can you be fair?"

I think should become standard practice for the juror's response to be something like "Of course; I'm just a working guy living paycheck to paycheck, I know nothing but fair. But, your honor, how can you prove to me that you are not a political crony who is going to make decisions based on party loyalty rather than Constitutional law?"

I think when judges start hearing concerns from the jury box, they will start to pay attention.