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The Prosecution of Governor Siegelman
Seven U.S. Attorneys were fired in December 2006 by the Bush Justice Department not because of poor performance, but because of the refusal to engage in politically-driven prosecutions. Former Governor of Alabama Don Siegelman was convicted of bribery and sentence to serve seven years in jail.
Tags: President George W. Bush; Circuit Court of Appeals; imprisonment; allegation; Grant Woods;
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Conflict on the Bench
Evans examined two sitting federal judges, James H. Payne and Terrence Boyle, to determine their independence.Both were nominated by President Bush for higher court seats. Both have conflicts of interest on their bench: they each sat on cases that involved companies in which they owned stock. Judge Payne withdrew his nomination after the stories about him ran.
Tags: federal judge; stock; companies; bench; Boyle; Payne; Bush; Circuit Court of Appeals;
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Salon.com Bush Series
This story is a duplicate. Go to 23221 for the actual file.
Tags: Judge James H. Payne; Judge Terrence Boyle; U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; Judges; George W. Bush; presidential malfeasance; corruption; buying Judges
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A Shot in the Arm
Police arrested Darryl Burton on June 28, 1984, for the shooting death of Donald Ball, a notorious neighborhood gangster. Burton's trial in 1985 lasted two days, and a St. Louis jury found him guilty of capital murder and armed criminal action. Circuit Judge Jack L. Koehr sentenced the 23 year old Burton to life in prison. This story explores the murder conviction and the obstacles Burton has encountered in trying to get the conviction reversed. He was convicted on the strength of two eyewitness accounts. Gay finds that one of the eyewitnesses admitted perjury, and the other has had his character and testimony impugned by the arrival of new testimony.
Tags: Darryl Burton; reversed conviction; Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals; habeas corpus; FOI
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A question of judgment: Portsmouth judge frequently reduces DUIs on appeal
This investigation showed how a circuit court judge reduced drunken driving convictions to reckless driving in nearly two out of three appeals. An analysis of a state database of criminal cases helped to identify the trend.
Tags: drunken driving; DUI; court; CAR; computer-assisted reporting; judge; appeal; convictions
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Gov. Gray Davis
A series of stories by the Sacramento Bee revealing that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Sacramento tried to protect California Governor Gray Davis by sealing court documents containing allegations about Davis' conduct as a state assemblyman and state controller. The Bee was also able to document the secrecy through reporting, and sued to open the records.
Tags: FOIA
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Stories on U.S. District Judge Alan McDonald
"For years, U.S. District Judge Alan McDonald and his courtroom deputy in Yakima exchanged disparaging notes about people appearing in court -- a possible violation of conduct rules for federal judges." Copies of the notes were obtained by the Spokesman Review, and launched a nine-month judicial misconduct investigation and a reprimand by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Tags: judicial misconduct; district court; ethics; Washington State Bar Association; legal journalism; racial bias; ethnic slurs; religious bias
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Judge Not
The controversy over President Clinton's nomination of Enrique Moreno's nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has lead to the baladeering of Moreno in folk songs usually reserved for the legendary and the dead. Questions concerning whether his experience was adequate for such a high court were raised to Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Others contend that Moreno, a Harvard Law Graduate with the support of the El Paso Bar Association and congressman Silvestre Reyes (to name just two), is being rejected on other grounds. Gov. George W. Bush refused to intervene in the case, or even comment on it to the magazine.
Tags: Enrique Moreno; El Paso; George W. Bush; President Clinton; Orrin Hatch; Kay Bailey Hutchinson; Federal Judicial Advisory Group; Hopwood v. Texas; judicial appointment
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Newsday reports that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer had ruled on cases in which he had indirect financial interest while sitting on the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals. The stories show that Breyer had an interest in a Lloyd's of London syndicate which was actively involved in court cases in the United States; as a result, the White House asked Breyer to provide them with all the documentation he had about his relationship with Lloyd's, June 24, July 10 - 16, Nov. 12, 1994.
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Righting the Courts
National Journal reports on the ideological transformation of the federal courts system, with more than half of all 828 federal appeals and trial court judges having been appointed by presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush; if Bush were to be re-elected, he would appoint over 90 percent of the federal judiciary, Jan. 25, 1992.
Tags: D.C. Circuit; trial courts; federal appeals; judicial appointments