Questions Mount about Dem Governor Prosecution

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Questions Mount about Dem Governor Prosecution
By Laura McGann - June 27, 2007, 2:46 PM

Ex-Gov. Don Siegelman (D-AL) is again questioning the motives and impartiality of the prosecutors who want to put him away for 30 years. And the prosecutors keep giving him good reason to.

Siegelman's sentencing hearing, which has extended into its second day today, has provoked his latest assertions.

His lawyers have also raised objections to prosecutors supporting their call for an extraordinarily tough sentence by using evidence connected to charges on which Siegelman was acquitted. Siegelman was charged with 32 counts, but acquitted of 25. According to the New York Times, Siegelman's lawyers have had it:



This is not the first time Siegelman has called his prosecution biased. He has long maintained that the investigation was based on a Republican vendetta. He's pointed to an affidavit signed by Republican lawyer Dana Jill Simpson to support his claim.

As we've detailed before, Simpson says she heard Bill Canary, a state GOP operative, say Karl Rove had promised to get the Justice Department on Siegelman. Canary also allegedly said he'd get his "girls" on Siegelman, referring to two of the US attorneys in the state.

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If too much of his little scheme looks like it's going to
hit the front page of the New York tomes, all he has to do
is have Bush pardon Siegelman, and act like nothing ever happened.

I would hope that a woman having her car run off the road and her
house burned down would be sufficient to keep the fire burning
under this story, but it has been going on now for more than a day,
which is straining the MSM's attention span for stories about people
whose last names are not Hilton.