Siegelman's Lawyer Says Appeal To 11th Circuit Was 'Lively, Interesting'

[L. Coyote]

Judges Take Another Look at Ex-Alabama Governor’s Conviction
By JOHN SCHWARTZ - January 19, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/20/us/20siegelman.html


JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Three federal appeals court judges seemed ready on Wednesday to see the convictions of former Gov. Don E. Siegelman of Alabama and the man accused of bribing him in a new light.

Lawyers for the former governor and Richard M. Scrushy, the former chief executive of HealthSouth, asked a panel of the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to either toss out the 2006 convictions of both men in view of recent decisions by the Supreme Court or at least order a new trial.

The judges seemed to acknowledge that the Supreme Court had recently shifted the legal landscape.

Judge J. L. Edmondson asked if the jurors in the original trial had been given alternate ways to convict Mr. Siegelman and Mr. Scrushy, and suggested that if some of those grounds for conviction had been invalidated, “that’s problematic.” Judge Edmondson asked if “there should at least be a new trial.” It is not clear when the panel will issue an opinion in the case.

Mr. Siegelman and his supporters have argued that his prosecution was spearheaded by the Bush administration to end the career of a promising Democratic politician ....

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Siegelman's Lawyer Says Appeal To 11th Circuit Was 'Lively, Interesting'
http://www.whnt.com/news/whnt-former-alabama-governor-don-si-01182011,0,6759467.story

[FourScore]

1. kick

[indepat]

2. AG Holder will surely assure that justice prevails

;)

[L. Coyote]

3. That's why Bush's AL USA is still in place?

[indepat]

5. Your question is more than enough to wholly clarify this entire issue

for me, especially when seeming to recall the AG having thrown out the conviction of a now-late Alaskan senator for, was it prosecutorial misconduct(?), the same charge a veritable plethora/bea-coup of former state, et al, AGs assert in the Siegleman case, only to have those assertions fall on deaf/uninterested ears at this point. ;)

[L. Coyote]

4. Previous thread: Can Governor Don Siegelman stay out of jail?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x222852

[EFerrari]

6. Kick.

I've emailed Pam asking to be put on the listserv. Don't know if she's still updating it.

:kick: