Sunday, March 8, 2009

Siegelman's Conviction Upheld



Although with a couple completely evidence-free convictions overturned, and the main verdict upheld essentially because of extreme deference to the jury. The real problem here is the vagueness of the underlying law, which permitted a conviction on exceedingly thin inferential evidence. I agree with Lizardbreath that this seems like a good pardon candidate on the legal merits, although politically, I'm not so sure...

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