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Segami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-11 06:16 PM
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Are U.S. Appellate Courts Trying To COVER UP BUSH-ERA CRIMES?
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" A federal appellate court, for the third time, has rendered a "split decision" on an apparent political prosecution from the George W. Bush era--overturning convictions on some counts, while upholding others.


The latest example came last Friday when the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta released its ruling in the case of Sue Schmitz, a former Democratic state legislator in Alabama. The appeals court overturned Schmitz' convictions for theft concerning a program receiving federal funds, while upholding her convictions on mail fraud. Schmitz sentence has been vacated, with the case returned to district court for resentencing.


This is similar to what happened on the appeals of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman (Eleventh Circuit) and Mississippi attorney Paul Minor (Fifth Circuit). What should we make of this pattern? Here is what I make of it: Federal appeals courts are engaged in a coordinated effort to cover up Bush-era political prosecutions and protect the rogue judges and prosecutors responsible for them.


As we noted in a previous post (multiple posts, actually),....http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2010/03/josef-stalins-spirit-lives-on-through.html....... federal judges often are more interested in protecting the interests of the legal profession than in administering justice. By rendering split decisions on the Siegelman, Minor, and Schmitz appeals, they allow a thread of legitimacy to cling to the trial-court proceedings. That will make it more difficult for the victims of political prosecutions to ever receive justice in the civil arena, from filing lawsuits against those who were likely responsible.



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http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2010/03/josef-stalins-spirit-lives-on-through.html



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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-11 06:54 PM
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1. Is ANYONE -- A-N-Y-F-U-C-K-I-N-G-ONE -- in US government NOT trying to cover up war crimes?
(Bush's or Obama's)?
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-11 06:59 PM
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2. Mr. Obama prefers we move along and be bipartisan lol nt
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Segami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-11 07:03 PM
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4. Yes. A ' bipartisan ' coverup. Crimes HAVE been committed and the WH is choosing to look away.
So much for ' Change '.
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Motown_Johnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-11 07:00 PM
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3. does my mailman count?
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