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Pondering the fall-out from the Stevens debacle

By Douglas A. Berman

Today's Legal Times has this piece, headlined "Attorney General Weathers Stevens Fallout -- for Now," which takes early stock of the early aftermath of the latest ugliness in the Justice Department. Here is how it starts: For the Justice Department, it was a week that might have echoed the toughest days of the Bush era. First, the department got a very public, and perhaps unprecedented, spanking from a federal judge for mishandling the corruption case against former Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska.  U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan targeted six top prosecutors in a criminal contempt investigation for failing to turn over evidence to the defense.  He also took strong aim at the department's Office of Professional Responsibility, which had been investigating the prosecutors, and wondered aloud whether the office was up to the job of policing Justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 13, 2009 (boomark / email).