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...government lawyers failed to turn over evidence the Stevens defense should have received. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan, who presided over Stevens' trial, soon authorized an investigation of the prosecutors' conduct, a move as rare...
...Eric Holder - who was not in office when Stevens was convicted in 2008 - had to request that U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan dismiss the case. Sullivan did so in 2009 and then appointed Schuelke, a former prosecutor, to conduct his investigation...
...but said he will not hold them criminally responsible for their "ill-gotten verdict."U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered that a 500-page report into the Justice Department's botched corruption case against Stevens be released...
...investigation by a special prosecutor - would prefer that we not be privy to the pesky details of their own behavior. Judge Emmet Sullivan described that behavior as "significant prosecutorial misconduct in a highly publicized investigation and prosecution...
...an Interior Department rule concerning the threat to polar bears posed by global warming.U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled Monday that the Bush administration did not complete a required environmental review when it said the bear's...
...misconduct perpetrated by Department of Justice prosecutors in the case of U.S. v. Theodore Stevens.Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan had ordered an exhaustive investigation into the case and the outcome resulted in a statement by Judge Sullivan which...
...written statement. Once that inquiry is complete, the government will share the findings with U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who is presiding over the Stevens case. Defense lawyers for others caught up in the corruption investigation say...
...concealing evidence from defense attorneys in their zeal to convict Stevens. Throughout the trial, U.S District Judge Emmet Sullivan voiced his anger with prosecutors. "How can the court have the confidence that the public integrity section has...
...seen anything approaching the mishandling and misconduct that I've seen in this case," U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said. Sullivan appointed a special prosecutor to investigate Justice Department lawyers who repeatedly withheld evidence...
...district court in Washington, D.C., said in a letter it had reviewed the complaint by U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan and "determined that no further action will be taken."