Breaking: prosecution lawyers in Stevens case face criminal contempt
The judge in the corruption trial against Ted Stevens dismissed the conviction and initiated a criminal contempt investigation of the team of government lawyers who prosecuted the former senator.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan scolded the prosecution when he dismiss the charges against Stevens (R-Alaska)."In nearly 25 years on the bench I have never seen anything approaching the mishandling and misconduct in this case," Sullivan said.
He also called the prosecutor’s actions “shocking and disturbing.”
Attorney General Eric Holder last week announced that the Justice Department would ask for the conviction and the indictment to be overturned because of new evidence of prosecutorial misconduct. A new team of government lawyers uncovered notes from defense lawyers that contradicted testimony by a key witness…
