Federal judge admonishes Ashcroft for statements about terror trial

[Newsjock]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/12/16/national1725EST0637.DTL

14:25 PST DETROIT (AP) -- A federal judge has admonished Attorney General John Ashcroft for violating a court order by making remarks about defendants in the nation's first major terror trial after Sept. 11.

U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen said Ashcroft's statements could have compromised defendants' rights to a fair trial, but that the violations did not warrant contempt charges or require Ashcroft to appear in the Detroit court to explain himself.

"The attorney general's office exhibited a distressing lack of care in issuing potentially prejudicial statements about this case," Rosen wrote in an opinion released Tuesday.

Lawyers for Karim Koubriti, Abdel-Ilah Elmardoudi and Ahmed Hannan argued Ashcroft had violated Rosen's order limiting publicity in October 2001 when he said the three men were suspected of having knowledge of the attacks. The Justice Department retracted the statement two days later.

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[tom_paine]

1. Heinrich Asscroft cares nothing for the Law

Like all Totalitarians he believes himself to be the embodiment and final arbiter of the Law, IMHO.

Dangerous Totalitarian Monster...

[burythehatchet]

3. Absolutely love your sig

priceless...

[louis-t]

2. "distressing lack of care"

and "potentially prejudicial statements"? Imagine if Janet Reno had done the same thing. The most powerful attorney in the country and he can't keep his mouth shut or follow the rules. Troubling to hear such statements in light of recent neo-con ramblings from Ann Coulter who claims there is no such thing as 'international law'.

[pinto]

10. that's the stuff, "international law?, huh!" that worries me...

and it's corollary, "US citizen rights?, huh!, National security!"

[snippy]

4. This judge obviously is a terrorist. If he disappears, check Gitmo.

[Bronco69]

5. I hope that judge doesn't drive long distances

by himself or intend to fly in small planes anytime soon.

[sendero]

6. this is not the first time....

.... a judge has told Asscrack to clam up.

[Gman]

7. What doesn't this judge understand

about Ashcroft is supreme?

[0007]

8. A judge is meaningless to Ashcroft, even though he did sez he

was sorry.

At Bob Jones Unversity, Ashcroft told the world, "I have no King but Jesus"

[Bozita]

9. Judge Rosen is an appointee of Bush the Elder

Member of the Federalist Society.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=U.S.+District+Judge+Gerald+Rosen&btnG=Google+Search


bless him

[bucknaked]

11. How dare the Judicial branch try to butt into Aschroft's brand of justice.

Damn, next thing you know, congress might start getting uppity too.