The CBS News magazine show “60 Minutes’ is not backing down from running an investigative story on the political prosecution of Don Siegelman based on the testimony of Alabama lawyer Jill Simpson, according to sources who are directly involved with the show’s scheduling, says The Locust Fork Journal.
Also, today, the political prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman will be on the agenda when Attorney General Michael Mukasey testifies before the United States House Judiciary Committee in Washington.
Siegelman was convicted by a tainted Montgomery jury in 2006, sentenced by a biased judge in June 2008 and is still in prison awaiting a ruling on his release pending appeal. There is still no transcript from the two-year old trial, the judge’s responsibility, making it impossible for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to move on the case.
Filed under: Corruption, News Headlines, Politics, Prison | Tagged: Alabama, Don Siegelman, Governor
According to the Locustfork Journal: Representative Artur Davis actually laid out a pretty good set of predicate questions for nailing down the attorney general for the record on the inappropriateness of a presidential, political aide such as Karl Rove to consult with U.S. attorneys in the prosecution of a governor such as Don Siegelman. But it was clear that Mukasey has done nothing yet to investigate this, and most likely won’t, until the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals makes a ruling – if then.
Considering the three judge panel will have to wait until the end of March for a trial transcript, it looks like neither the House Judiciary Committee, the new attorney general or the appeals court are anywhere near providing relief for a governor who sits in jail due to what was clearly a political prosecution.