Posted on 07/15/2008 10:44:42 PM PDT by HAL9000
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In March 2007 the U.S. government charged Axion Corp., a small business in Huntsville, Ala., with illegally giving technical drawings for a Blackhawk helicopter part to manufacturers in China. The prosecutors seized Axion's assets and took away its government contract business. The company won an acquittal at trial a year later, but by that time, it was out of business.Axion is the latest in a string of aggressive prosecutions brought by Birmingham U.S. Attorney Alice Martin. Those prosecutions are marked by convictions overturned and innocent men wronged. Two judges have openly questioned whether she knowingly prosecuted innocent people. The American Lawyer has learned that the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility has opened an investigation into allegations of misconduct that were made by Axion against Martin.
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The job of a prosecutor is to secure convictions. Period.
At the price of an innocent going to jail. I don’t think so.
Ever hear of Edwin Wilson?
40,000 lbs of C-4 to Libya? He was not exactly what I was looking for...
Is it irony or intention that causes you to ask this of "Poindexter"? :-)
(assuming of course that you are aware of Admiral Poindexter's involvement with Edwin Wilson?)
Reading just the article, I’m must say we have a rouge prosecutor here.
The prosecutor is red?
Or, does she use too much makeup?
A lot of people, including many unethical prosecutors, seem to have that opinion. But in fact, as an "officer of the court", the job of a prosecutor is to see that justice is done.
Mike Nifong II
Maybe just her Baton was Rouge.
Yeah. Scooter Libby.
Of course. All the time. But we mostly don’t give two craps about those people. And this case? ‘Twas ever thus.
ROTFL!
“As the case progressed, the government’s own witnesses were forced to concede that Blackhawk helicopters, equipped with the part in question, had actually been sold to China with U.S. government approval, demolishing the government’s claim of a breach of secrecy. Not only that, but the prosecution was aware of these sales before the case was ever brought.
Then maybe you haven't read this:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/jud/wilson102703.pdf
He did so with the full knowledge and encouragement of the CIA.
Do you remember what explosive was used to bring down Pan Am Flight 103? Could it be that the U.S. Government sold the very explosives Libya used in that terrorist act?
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