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  • Pollard's lawyers seek review on sentence

    01/15/2004 2:01:19 PM PST · by Tumbleweed_Connection · 50 replies · 1,045+ views
    Penn Live ^ | 1/15/04 | Hope Yen
    Lawyers for convicted spy Jonathan Pollard are asking an appeals court to allow a review of his life sentence for selling military secrets to Israel. The request filed Wednesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seeks to overturn a judge's ruling in November that found Pollard had waited too long to challenge his 1987 sentence and rejected claims that Pollard's original attorneys did not adequately represent him. Pollard's current lawyers argue that U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan didn't address their claims that prosecutors reneged on a promise to seek a lesser sentence in return...