Selective prosecution in the federal criminal justice system?
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Selective prosecution in the federal criminal justice system?
（Criminal justice, law enforcement and corrections series）
Nova Science, c2010
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Since July 2007, the Committee on the Judiciary and its staff have been investigating allegations that political considerations may have improperly influenced federal criminal prosecutions in a number of cases around the country. For the reasons described as follows, further action along the following lines is recommended: 1) Justice Department internal oversight offices should conduct a thorough investigation and report on these troubling allegations of selective, politically motivated federal prosecutions 2) The Committee's investigation should continue and further efforts should be made to obtain relevant documents about the cases described in this book, and 3) As part of that investigation, efforts should be made to obtain testimony from Karl Rove. This book describes the progress of the investigation on allegations of selective and politically-motivated prosecution and summarises troubling evidence regarding several federal criminal cases. Because the Department of Justice has largely refused to co-operate with the Committee's investigation, key facts remain unknown and reliable final judgements cannot be made. However, given the troublesome facts identified to date, it is clear at a minimum that current and former Department leadership has been derelict in failing to review these matters and reassure the American people that federal law enforcement is impartial and fair.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- United States of House of Representatives, Committee on Judiciary Majority Staff, Allegations of Selective Prosecution in Our Federal Criminal Justice System, Prepared for Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (17 April 2008)
- An Empirical Examination of the Political Profiling of Elected Officials: A Report on Selective Investigations and/or Indictments by the DOJ's U.S. Attorneys under Attorneys General Ashcroft and Gonzales
- Before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism & the Homeland Security and the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administration Law of the Committee on Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, Testimony of G. Douglas Jones, Attorney with Whatley, Drake & Kallas, LLC, Birmingham Office and former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama "Allegations of Selective Prosecution: The Erosion of Public Confidence in our Federal Judicial System" (23 October 2007)
- Testimony of Dick Thornburgh, Counsel, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP and Former Attorney General of the United States, At A Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary
- Sub-Committee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
- and Sub-Committee on Commercial, and Administrative Law of the United States House of Representatives "Allegations of Selective Prosecution: The Erosion of Public Confidence In Our Federal Justice Systems" (Tuesday, 23 October 2007)
- Index.
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