Citing Threats, Rowland Tries Again To Win New Trial
Source: Hartford Courant
By Edmund H. Mahony
March 10, 2015, 2:38 PM
Just days before his sentencing, former Gov. John G. Rowland is trying again to persuade a judge to grant him a new trial, claiming he has new proof that federal prosecutors threatened a potential witness and withheld evidence that supported his claim of innocence..
Rowland asserts in legal papers that his new proof strengthens his case that federal prosecutors exerted enormous pressure on his two alleged co-conspirators - former congressional candidate Lisa Wilson-Foley and her husband Brian – to shape testimony to conform with the government's case.
Rowland, who was convicted in September in a conspiracy to break campaign laws, has been pressing similar arguments since late last year. In legal papers that became public Tuesday, he raised the stakes with what he said was new information provided to him in recent days by Brian Foley's defense lawyers, Hubert Santos and Jessica Santos of Hartford.
"It again demonstrates the Government's singular focus on prosecuting Mr. Rowland, the tremendous pressure the Government placed on the Foleys to do so, and the Government's rigid theory of the case when confronted with contrary evidence," Rowland's lawyers wrote.
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The man just never quits - this is the second time he's asked for a new trial, and this one won't work.
The thing is, the arrogant SOB was given a plea deal with an offer for just several months in jail. He refused, and now he's been convicted and facing three or four years in the slammer.