If judge Emmet Sullivan thinks the trial against senator Stevens was raunchy, the worst he has ever seen, gross misconduct, he aint seen any thing yet.
In Illinois, this happens one thousand, two thousand? times a day and it aint limited to prosecutors.
Judges, law bars, law schools, D.A's, assistant D.A.'s cops, defense lawyers, you name it, they do it all the time.
Gross misconduct in the Stevens trial, is child's play, is nothing, not even a blimp on the radar, compared to Chicago.
Look at the trial I blog about, a traffic ticket, which should make judge Sullivan, puke his guts out.
Criminal misconduct, in my trial alone, the government would have to build a new prison.
My blogs are to report crimes, but there is no one to report them to that gives a hoot, other than cover then self's.
Yep, unfortunately judge Emmet Sullivan, should wake up and smell the coffee (now please don't get me wrong, Judge Sullivan has shown more what the court should be like than any judge, I could think about in Illinois, Sullivan is a judge worth respect, he respects and hold the law to a high standard, single standard (no double standard). He is some one to be proud of.
In Sen. Ted Stevens case, justice system failed
Among the many ways justice can be frustrated, even corrupted, prosecutorial misconduct ranks among the worst. Not only can it send innocent defendants to prison, but it robs the system of something fundamental -- public trust.
That's what transpired in the conviction last fall of Ted Stevens, then a Republican U.S. Senator from Alaska, and led U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to ask last week that the conviction be tossed out.
But that's not enough. The Bush Justice Department prosecutors who withheld evidence from Stevens' attorneys that might have exonerated him must be called to account.
This is not a case where prosecutors can credibly claim an innocent mistake or oversight. The evidence withheld involved interview statements by the prosecution's key witness against Stevens that differed sharply from his sworn testimony at trial.
It was classic cross-examination material -- and Justice Department lawyers made sure Stevens lawyers never heard it.
From the start, the prosecutors' conduct seems unprofessional, even reprehensible. Federal Judge Emmet G. Sullivan repeatedly chastised them for hiding potentially exculpatory information. At one point, he almost declared a mistrial, and later cited two prosecutors for contempt for refusing to deliver documents he had demanded.
Few public officials possess more power for good or evil than prosecutors -- county, state or federal. A prosecutor can, as the cliche has it, "indict a ham sandwich."
At the same time, the office is regularly a stepping stone to promotions or even to higher elective office, and thus carries the temptation to amass a conviction record, even at a cost to defendant's rights. Something like that seems to have driven Stevens' prosecutors.
Holder has promised a full examination of the Stevens prosecutors' conduct, presumably with prosecution if warranted. Nothing less will do. http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2009/04/in_sen_ted_stevens_case_justic.html
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