Prosecutorial Misconduct in the Ted Stevens Case

[Mike Sellers]

Don Kiyoti wrote: His defense team asked for an accelerated trial schedule and they got it.

Which turned out to be a good tactic for Stevens since he doesn't get to spend his final years in the pokey.

[BCam]

As Olbermann pointed out the other day, it is once again the "Department of Justice", not the "Department of Just Us". Turns out we're still a country of Law.

[$tevie]

If the charges had been thrown out before the election, Mr. McConnell said in an interview, “Ted Stevens would still be in the Senate.”

“It literally cost us a seat,” he said.

Wow, that is a totally hypothetical statement with no proof to back it up. Since the charges were thrown out for legal technicalities and not due to a last minute proof of his innocence, how many people would have really changed their mind about Stevens? I would question the idea that Alaskans were allowing the Dept of Justice to decide how they felt about him.

[freeradical]

Ted Steven's real crime was to be stupid enough to get caught. I suspect that most politicians who have held power for a long time, such as Dianne Feinstein, and John "Abscam" Murtha, are dirty. They just get a sense of entitlement...

[Silencio]

DiFi is independently stupendously wealthy (at least through marriage). She doesn't need the money. But whatever: your guy got caught with his hand in the cookie jar and lost his seat because of it. Deal with it already.

I thought the Republican party was supposed to be comprised of rugged individualists who accepted the blame for their own failures, but never have I seen such a collection of whiners since election night. Quit complaining. Pull yourselves up by the bootstraps. Take your own medicine for a change.

[mick e]

They like to whine even more than they liked having all the power to make the horrible choices that sent the world into the shidder.

They are self-loathing, dysfunctional, authoritarian masochists. They enjoy bathing in failure. Whining makes it that much more pleasurable for them.

[$tevie]

Considering the non-stop sniveling and complaints that went on back when they controlled all 3 branches of the government, I would have to agree that these folks love to feel victimized and unhappy.

[Bill in NC]

And I'm sure we all will eventually get to pay his legal bills.

And standing for him to sue for damages?