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(1) BIO http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brendan-demelle/paul-minor-denied-release_b_185605.html
(2) Paul Minor Denied Release by 5th Circuit and Justice Department · Brendan DeMelle
(3) "guided by the hand of Karl Rove."
(4) Rove helped Owen amass a war chest; Texans For Public Justice reported; 2005 New York Times article; Times article digg Huffpost - stumble reddit del.ico.us huffington_post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brendan-demelle/paul-minor-denied-release_b_185605.html ShareThis Fifth Circuit, Justice Department, Karl Rove, Paul Minor, Priscilla Owen, Politics News selective prosecution by the Bush DOJ; deny Minor's motion for release.
(5) Judge Priscilla Owen's previous denial last year; recused herself from Minor's case; guided by the hand of Karl Rove; Rove helped Owen amass a war chest; Texans For Public Justice reported; to eliminate partisan election of judges; blocked her first nomination; New York Times editorial; Another editorial; 2005 New York Times article; Times article
(6) Karl Rove
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Siegelman's First Trial Judge Blasts U.S. Prosecutors, Seeks Probe of 'Unfounded' Charges 05.21.2009
One of the most experienced federal judges in recent Alabama history is denouncing the U.S. Justice Department prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman. Read Post Comments (14)
Retired Chief U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon of Birmingham calls for a probe of misconduct by federal prosecutors ─ including their alleged "judge-shopping," jury-pool "poisoning" and "unfounded" criminal charges in an effort to imprison Siegelman.
Retired Chief U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon of Birmingham calls for a probe of misconduct by federal prosecutors ─ including their alleged "judge-shopping," jury-pool "poisoning" and "unfounded" criminal charges in an effort to imprison Siegelman.
The Siegelman prosecution by the Bush Administration Justice Department is one of the most controversial U.S. criminal cases of the decade because of claims that Republican political appointees ─ sometimes using career prosecutors as public surrogates ─ unfairly targeted the Democratic defendant to prevent his re-election in 2006 as governor.
"In my judgment, his prosecution was completely without legal merit; …"
The remarkable letter by Clemon requests that that Holder investigate misconduct by federal prosecutors …
Prosecutors obtained Chief U.S. District Judge Mark E. Fuller of Montgomery to preside over the former governor's trial. Fuller hated Siegelman because of his role in appointing an investigator for scandals arising from the judge's controlling interest in the military contractor Doss Aviation, according to on-the-record sources cited in my Huffington Post article published May 15.
Meanwhile this week, protests against the federal court system's treatment of Siegelman escalated on other fronts following the article, which was entitled, "Siegelman Deserves New Trial Because of Judge's 'Grudge', Evidence Shows....$300 Million in Bush Military Contracts Awarded to Judge's Private Company."
Meanwhile this week, protests against the federal court system's treatment of Siegelman escalated on other fronts following the article, which was entitled, "Siegelman Deserves New Trial Because of Judge's 'Grudge', Evidence Shows....$300 Million in Bush Military Contracts Awarded to Judge's Private Company."
… new evidence from such sources as Missouri attorney Paul B. Weeks, who obtained Fuller's recusal from a civil case in 2003 on the grounds that Fuller lacked the ethics needed to preside as judge. … deserve a new trial because Fuller should have disqualified himself from their criminal case on the judge's own motion.
"The evidence is clear to me that Judge Fuller failed to disclose his bias in the Siegelman case, and committed fraud on the court," said Weeks, citing what he called the similar 1988 Supreme Court case Liljeberg v. Health Services Acquisition Corp. (486 U.S. 847). "If a judge knows something that others in the case don't know, and it would cause an appearance of bias, he has an obligation to identify it and get out of the case," Weeks said, as quoted by Alabama journalist Roger Shuler. "The Supreme Court said in Liljeberg that the judge's failure to do this was inexcusable."
Siegelman's co-defendant Scrushy … said he was the innocent victim of a political "vendetta" against Siegelman.
Beginning in February of that year, Alabama attorney Dana Jill Simpson volunteered to help Scrushy avoid what she regarded as wrongful imprisonment.
Simpson, a longtime volunteer for Republicans in opposition research, then swore out an affidavit … alleging to Fuller that prominent Alabama Republicans had sought as early as November 2002 to frame Siegelman.
Simpson, a longtime volunteer for Republicans in opposition research, then swore out an affidavit … alleging to Fuller that prominent Alabama Republicans had sought as early as November 2002 to frame Siegelman.
In her informal email today commenting on Doss Aviation's importance to others concerned about the case, Simpson wrote (with punctuations and capitalizations here formalized):
"This company was doing more than anyone could imagine....They, my friends, really do appear to be almost a wing of the Air Force....In fact, the $178 million, 10-year Doss In-Flight Screening Program was awarded right during the middle of the Siegelman case....It is time our government starts answering questions about how one company has been allowed to have so much power providing fuel to our military and training our Air Force."
Siegelman was convicted on seven of 32 counts in 2006 before Fuller, who held prosecutors blameless for most of the many claims of prosecutorial misconduct.
Federal Judges get away with almost anything. Sam Kent for example, would have been convicted of rape but instead took a plea deal where he only served 33 months in jail, and he got to keep his salary.
Paul Minor's Attorneys Ask Attorney General To Intervene
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brendan-demelle/paul-minors-attorneys-ask_b_221284.html
This new evidence of misconduct should compel Attorney General Holder to review Minor's case and immediately release him from prison.
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