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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJim Zeigler says reversal of Virginia governor’s graft conviction could free Don Siegelman.
'State Auditor Jim Zeigler said Monday he believes the U.S. Supreme Courts decision to overturn a prominent Virginia politicians criminal conviction could spring former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman as well.
Saying Gov. Bob McDonnell was exonerated on charges very close to what Siegelman was convicted of, Zeigler said Siegelman a longtime power broker in Montgomery and around the state could benefit from procedural aspects of McDonnells case.
The high court found Monday morning that the jury that convicted McDonnell was instructed incorrectly. Specifically, the court ruled that state prosecutors interpreted a federal bribery statute too broadly, and instructed jurors to deliberate over the decision whether or not to convict McDonnell for something that may not have been technically unlawful at all.
The jury was instructed to interpret the term public acts to mean almost anything a governor does while in office, including setting up meetings between interests and constituents precisely what McDonnell was convicted of doing in exchange for personal gifts from a businessman seeking access to public figures.
Zeigler sees parallels between McDonnells case and Siegelmans in this regard.'>>>
http://altoday.com/archives/11084-jim-zeigler-says-reversal-virginia-governors-graft-conviction-free-don-siegelman
I was hoping to see something like this.
Renew Deal
(81,801 posts)He is due to be released August next year. Obama doesn't like to get involved in cases like this. We'll see
elleng
(130,151 posts)so I doubt that President Obama will take it up now.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)and really pathetic as well--that it took this long, and a different case to get it done.
elleng
(130,151 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)was the same crooked friend of KKKarl who put him in there in the first place. Our so-called justice system is truly fucked up.