Tagged: ted stevens

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Nicholas Marsh (pictured) committed suicide over the weekend.  He and the other prosecutors in the Ted Stevens fiasco were being investigated for their handling of the case, after the judge found them to have withheld exculpatory evidence from the defense.  (See our previous posts on this here.) After dismissing the...

DOJ Tries To Sweep Its Ted Stevens Fiasco Under the Rug

We try not to report here on matters that everyone else in the world is already talking about. That’s why we’ve said nowt on Bernie Madoff and other headline-grabbing stories. For the same reason, we decided yesterday not to mention the DOJ’s request to dismiss the charges in its prosecution...

Sen. Stevens Prosecutors Held in Contempt, Taken Off the Case

We took an unexpected trip out of state until yesterday, and so haven’t had a chance to catch up on the latest in the ongoing saga involving allegations of prosecutorial misconduct in the Sen. Ted Stevens case. When last we left off, District Judge Emmet Sullivan had ordered a status...

More Allegations of Prosecutorial Misconduct in Sen. Ted Stevens Case

First, a recap: Last July, former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was indicted on seven counts of failing to report gifts he’d received, including renovations to his house in excess of what he’d paid for, but mostly goods and services from oil tycoon Bill Allen. Sen. Stevens pled not guilty, and...