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The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear an appeal filed by former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. Court officials say the hearing is tentatively scheduled for the week of July 28.
Siegelman is serving a 78 month sentence for bribery, conspiracy and other charges. He's currently at Oakdale Federal Detention Center in Oakdale, Louisiana.
Court documents filed in the Middle District of Alabama detail records needed for this appeal. Those records include nine volumes of pleadings, 113 volumes of transcripts, and three sealed boxes/exhibits.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is located in Atlanta.
http://www.wsfa.com/story/25284881/appeals-court-grants-former-alabama-hearing
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)kick and R
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)AnotherDreamWeaver
(2,852 posts)ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...I sincerely hope Siegelman wins and that his sentence is overturned.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)that tried to fight the Bush Crime Family.
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)Should have happened long ago.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Wouldn't that be out of character? You make no sense.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Karl appeared to be befuddled (unless it was an act) that something went wrong with his plan. Who stifled the BFEE's plan?
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Equal to Gore and Kerry whimpily riding into the sunset after they won, but lost, a presidential election.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)According to Karl Rove.
elleng
(131,236 posts)Raksha
(7,167 posts)raging moderate
(4,312 posts)Perhaps this travesty will end soon.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)How Gov. Siegelman has kept his sanity is a mystery to me. I remember years ago hearing him interviewed a number of times on Thom Hartmann's program. But for the most part, he's been abandoned by Democrats. Shameful.
lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)It's about time.
FreedRadical
(518 posts)I mean I know he was set up by Rove and the Canary's.
okaawhatever
(9,469 posts)Scrushy constitutes quid pro quo.
From the FreeSiegelman.com website:
made a major contribution to a lottery fund (not Gov. Siegelman's
campaign fund), in return for which Siegelman appointed Mr. Scrushy
to the Certificate of Need Board, which governs hospital expansions.
The indictment overlooked that Richard Scrushy previously served on
the CON board under three previous governors -- Guy Hunt, Jim
Folsom, Jr. and Fob James. The charges also ignored that Mr.
Scrushy didn't even want to be on this board. Instead, he saw it as
public service. More importantly, HealthSouth didn't need Mr. Scrushy
on the board, and the board passed nothing beneficial to HealthSouth
or Scrushy during Scrushy's term in question.
Further, the CON board did not, and does not, regulate HealthSouth,
nor does it regulate any other health care company in Alabama.
Significantly, neither of the two financial contributions at issue came
from Mr. Scrushy himself. The first came from a Maryland company,
Integrated Health Services, and went to the Alabama Education
Lottery Initiative -- not to Gov. Siegelman. The second came from
HealthSouth Corp. -- not Mr. Scrushy -- and went to the Alabama
Education Foundation (which acquired the debt of the failed lottery
initiative) and not to Gov. Siegelman.
Admittedly, Mr. Scrushy inspired these contributions, and they may
have gained him greater access to Siegelman generally. So what?
That is exactly what thousands of contributors to Gov. Riley's
campaign expect. It also is what state legislators expect their
contributors will receive, namely access. There is no law against this. It
is part of the democratic process.
There is no question as to Siegelman appointing Scrushy to the board. It was done in full public view, the donations were also publicly acknowledged. The reason Siegelman did everything in public view is because no one thought allowing someone to serve on a non-paying board for another term constituted quid pro quo.
elleng
(131,236 posts)Cha
(297,838 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)glad that he has not given up. It makes me SICK to know that Karl Rove was behind all this and so much more, and is still walking around free. Sickening.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)It's not torture. More like a fraternity prank, you know.
hlthe2b
(102,447 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)malaise
(269,234 posts)Rec
LoisB
(7,243 posts)DFW
(54,451 posts)Nicest guy you could ever want to meet. He said whatever happens to him individually was not important, but the scheme used to remove him from office and railroad him into jail was highly dangerous as a generic political tool.
"And for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail........."---Bob Dylan, "Chimes of Freedom"
chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)Yes, I want Don freed from political persecution, but that is not enough! Sweet Jesus, could we FINALLY prove that Turdblossom is guilty of a crime and send his treasonous ass to prison where it belongs?
The Wizard
(12,552 posts)how Karl Rove has avoided a poison dart to the neck?
chknltl
(10,558 posts)... and turdblossoms are a protected species. No true Liberal would deliberately cause direct harm to a protected species.
Raksha
(7,167 posts)I didn't realize they were endangered. It seems to me they are quite invasive, kinda like Roundup resistant weeds.
chknltl
(10,558 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)capitalist group vying for king of the mountain. Maybe the Koch Bros want to displace the BFEE. They might want to see Karl neutralized. I mean they gotta be pissed that Karl has taken their boy Christie out.
chknltl
(10,558 posts)anyone from the BFEE under Congressional investigation for likely crimes against humanity. I was here when the anti impeach crowd shouted us down! My position remains the same: If the USA has as it boasts so loudly to the world, a government OF BY and FOR it's People then who is ultimately responsible for the crimes committed by OUR government? The answer to that question is NOT "We don't have enough votes in Congress"! Our crooks are indeed a 'Protected Species'! This observation is not bitterness on my part, just profound sadness because I firmly believe in democracy as being the best form of government and we are doing our best to show the world that it ain't the noblest.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)our government does in our name.
chknltl
(10,558 posts)...and whatever it is we currently have in the USA. I can not help but be reminded of those good citizens of postwar Germany who were marched through the then recently liberated concentration camps. They did not have a democratic republic either.
brett_jv
(1,245 posts)Obama should've pardoned him, long ago, if you ask me.
Fuck Karl Rove ...
chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)We Have A Winner!
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Bush and Cheney and the gang.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)santamargarita
(3,170 posts)librechik
(30,677 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)Babel_17
(5,400 posts)Casandia
(660 posts)news. Keeping my fingers crossed that this finally will be over. I think of how Eric Holder let the senator from Alaska go free, but not Don Siegelman. Sickens me how Obama and other democrats in power turned their backs on this man.
bpositive
(423 posts)That he will have served his whole sentence before this is resolved.
certainot
(9,090 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)lucca18
(1,244 posts)What a complete travesty of injustice this had been!