Lawyers avoid charges despite misconduct WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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 by Washington lawyer Henry F. Schuelke III were revealed Monday in an order from U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan. Sullivan wrote the investigation found the Stevens prosecution was "permeated" by the prosecutors' concealment of evidence they collected that could have helped the senator's defense.
WASHINGTON -- A seething federal judge dismissed the corruption conviction of former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens on Tuesday and took the rare and serious step of ordering a criminal investigation into prosecutors who poisoned the case. In nearly 25 years on the bench, I've never seen anything approaching the mishandling and misconduct that I've seen in this case," U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said.
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered that a former executive of PPG Industries Inc. continue to be held without bond on charges she conspired to evade a U.S. ban on shipping special epoxy paint to a nuclear reactor in Pakistan. S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan entered an order indicating the bond status of Xun Wang, 51, remained unchanged and set a new hearing for next week. The U.S. District of Columbia judge wants more financial information before deciding on a proposed property bond release for Wang, former managing director of a PPG Chinese subsidiary who has been held without bond since her arrest last month.
The polar bear landed back in the Obama administration's lap Monday after a federal judge ruled the Interior Department must conduct an environmental review before it can exclude climate change from its strategy in aiding the threatened species. S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan said the Bush administration violated the National Environmental Policy Act by failing to formulate an environmental impact statement before issuing its ruling on the polar bear's status under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
WASHINGTON (AP) - A seething federal judge dismissed the corruption conviction of former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens on Tuesday and took the rare and serious step of ordering a criminal investigation into prosecutors who poisoned the case. In nearly 25 years on the bench, I've never seen anything approaching the mishandling and misconduct that I've seen in this case," U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said.
WASHINGTON - A seething federal judge dismissed the corruption conviction of former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens on and took the rare and serious step of ordering a criminal investigation into prosecutors who poisoned the case. In nearly 25 years on the bench, I've never seen anything approaching the mishandling and misconduct that I've seen in this case," U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said Tuesday.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The strange developments involving a prosecution witness who said he was untruthful in the case against Sen. Ted Stevens inched forward Tuesday with an order by the trial judge for a "brief hearing" in the matter Dec. 1. After dealing with cantankerous and AWOL jurors, a lawyer who he thought was signaling a witness, and multiple accusations of prosecutorial misconduct by the defense, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan now has a witness who appears to be recanting at least part of his testimony.
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge said Thursday that he wants to look at notes from the FBI's interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative. S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan's decision to review the documents followed arguments by Obama administration lawyers that sounded much like the reasons the Bush administration provided for keeping Cheney's interview from the public.
WASHINGTON | A judge held Justice Department attorneys in contempt Friday for failing to deliver documents to former Sen. Ted Stevens' legal team . U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said it was "outrageous" that government attorneys ignored his Jan. 30 deadline. - The Associated Press
A federal judge in the false-statement trial of Sen. Ted Stevens said Tuesday he would consider asking the U.S. Attorney's Office to investigate whether a lawyer representing the prosecution's star witness tried to coach his client's testimony. He was nodding his head left to right as if to tell the witness to say 'no,' " U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said. "That's borderline obstruction of justice, or could be.
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