Charges dropped vs. Sen. Ted for Prosecutorial misconduct

[schwartzie]

U.S. to Drop Case Against Ex-Senator From Alaska
By NEIL A. LEWIS

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department moved on Wednesday morning to drop all charges against former Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, who narrowly lost his seat last year shortly after being convicted on seven felony counts of ethics violations.

In a stunning development, Justice Department lawyers told a federal court that they had discovered a new instance of prosecutorial misconduct in the case and asked that the convictions be voided. Attorney General Eric F. Holder Jr. said that in the interests of justice there would be no new trial in the case....

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Query: which is more appalling, the senator's misconduct, the prosecutor's, or Justice for this.

[LaoTzu]

Lame....

Mr. Stevens was charged in July with lying on Senate disclosure forms by concealing an estimated $250,000 worth of goods and services he received, mostly to renovate a chalet he owned in Alaska. Prosecutors said he had received the bulk of the goods and services from Bill Allen, a longtime friend who had made a fortune by providing services to Alaska’s booming oil industry.

But in their filing on Wednesday, government lawyers said they had recently learned that trial prosecutors had concealed from Mr. Stevens’s defense lawyers the notes from a 2008 interview with Mr. Allen that raised significant doubts about the charges. Among other things, Mr. Allen asserted in the interview that the work on the Stevens home was worth only about $80,000, they said.

Mr. Stevens’s lawyers argued during the trial that the senator had been unaware of the help he received from Mr. Allen and had not intentionally concealed anything. Mr. Allen, the prosecution’s chief witness, provided forceful testimony intended to demonstrate that Mr. Stevens had been fully aware of what he received and had even signaled that he wanted it concealed.


I know the law, but still.... isn't the 'new evidence' a question of how much money he was paid off with? He was still paid off....
This will play as some kind of exoneration I am sure... Maybe the GOP decided to cut him some slack so he can take on Palin :P

Either way, it's a sham.