DEC 11 20091. Freedom on the Horizon for Paul Minor
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1. Freedom on the Horizon for Paul Minor
by Scott Horton for Harper's "No Comment"
Federal prosecutors who brought a controversial corruption
prosecution against trial lawyer Paul Minor and two Mississippi judges,
Wes Teel and John Whitfield, suffered a one-two punch in federal
courts this week. The result is that Minor, Teel, and Whitfield are now
all likely to be freed.
An opinion handed down in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New
Orleans struck down convictions for bribery, finding that the charges,
even if true, did not actually constitute a crime. The Bush-era Justice
Department’s case was an attempt to criminalize campaign funding
practices in which an attorney supported the election campaign efforts
of Democratic judges. No comparable cases were ever brought
against Republican judges or those who financed them. The charges
took the novel view that campaign contributions and campaign finance
assistance can be viewed as bribes paid to judges. But this rationale
was applied to only one side of the political ledger.
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