Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Did ormer AG Mukasey ignore evidence of misconduct in Stevens case?

Look forward to Judge Sullivan inviting or subpoenaing Mukasey in this matter.

TPM:

Reporting from yesterday's hearing, at which Judge Emmet Sullivan formally announced that the charges would be dropped, the Washington Post notes:

When the judge heard that Stevens's attorneys sent three letters about prosecutorial misconduct to former Attorney General Michael Mukasey but received no response, he called it "shocking -- but not surprising."

On October 28, 2008, Stevens' lawyer Brendan Sullivan (no relation to the judge, of course), sent a
16-page letter to Mukasey which called the government misconduct in the case "repeated, severe, intentional, and inexcusable." (The letter was released publicly at the time.)

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