By Nedra Pickler Associated Press WASHINGTON – The special prosecutor who investigated the botched case against late Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is not recommending criminal charges against any of the Justice Department attorneys who tried him despite finding widespread misconduct beyond what has yet been publicly revealed. The findings in a two-and-a-half-year investigation by Washington…
By David Ashenfelter Detroit Free Press DETROIT — Nada Prouty, the former Taylor woman who was drummed out of the CIA, prosecuted and stripped of her U.S. citizenship in 2007 because of a fraudulent marriage, says in a new book that she was railroaded by overzealous prosecutors and FBI agents in Detroit. “They had no…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Despite all the advances, human error can still trump modern technology. The Portland Oregonian reports that the FBI’s efforts last July to record Mohamed Mohamud first talking about taking part in a terrorist bombing plot in Portland failed because the tape recorder went dead. “Put simply,” the government wrote in court…
Barry Bonds/facebook By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Home run slugger Barry Bonds just keeps knocking them out of the park in the legal arena. On Friday, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld a federal judge’s ruling that bars three steroid tests from being introduced into his perjury case, a ruling that…
Maybe there’s more to this, but from outward appearances it seems rather bothersome that the Justice Department is scaling back in an area so important. We need to crack down more, not less on the violent Mexican cartels that have spread their tentacles in the U.S. By Joe Palazzolo Main Justice WASHINGTON — The Justice…
This controversy is far from over. But apparently some prosecutors outside of Washington feel Atty. Gen. Eric Holder bowed to politics when he dismissed the Ted Stevens case. Are they right? Or was Holder just trying to do the right thing? By Dan Levine The Legal Pad When Attorney General Eric Holder dismissed all charges…
U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow’s Husband and Mother Were Murdered This is a dangerous trend. We’ve seen in nations like Mexico and Colombia where threats to the justice system have undermine democracy, justice and order. The problem isn’t nearly as bad in the U.S. , but it’s still a big problem. By Jerry Markon Washington…
Some believe that prosecutors are the most powerful figures in the criminal justice system. Many of their decisions are virtually unreviewable: charging, case disposition, dismissals, plea bargains, and sentence recommendations, to name a few. Local and State prosecutors can be held accountable to the voters.. But given the power of incumbency, that checks and balance…
