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Alabama judge accused Sessions of "worst prosecutorial misconduct" he'd ever seen.
And it wasn't about race. The judge threw out the entire 227-count case Sessions brought against a business competitor of one of Sessions' campaign donors.
CNN reported on this in December. It didn't make a big splash back then but was brought up in the hearings yesterday. Rachel Maddow says this is starting to follow Sessions around like a string with a can on it tied to Sessions' bumper. Let's hope she's right.
Jeff Sessions' office accused of prosecutorial misconduct in the '90s
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/politics/jeff-sessions-prosecutorial-misconduct/
The 1997 "order and opinion" by an Alabama judge accused the state attorney general's office, which had been headed by Sessions, of the worst prosecutorial misconduct he'd ever seen.
"The court finds that even having been given every benefit of the doubt, the misconduct of the Attorney General in this case far surpasses in both extensiveness and measure the totality of any prosecutorial misconduct ever previously presented to or witnessed by this court," wrote James S. Garrett, a Jefferson County Circuit Court judge. The misconduct was "so pronounced and persistent," Garrett wrote, that "it permeates the entire atmosphere of this prosecution."
As a result, Garrett dismissed the case, which, according to the judge's order, had earlier been heralded by Sessions' office as being "of the greatest magnitude" it had undertaken in the past 25 years.
Sessions did not respond to requests for comment from CNN. He also did not mention the case on a questionnaire he submitted ahead of his upcoming Senate confirmation hearing, which included a section for "most significant litigated matters."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/politics/jeff-sessions-prosecutorial-misconduct/
The 1997 "order and opinion" by an Alabama judge accused the state attorney general's office, which had been headed by Sessions, of the worst prosecutorial misconduct he'd ever seen.
"The court finds that even having been given every benefit of the doubt, the misconduct of the Attorney General in this case far surpasses in both extensiveness and measure the totality of any prosecutorial misconduct ever previously presented to or witnessed by this court," wrote James S. Garrett, a Jefferson County Circuit Court judge. The misconduct was "so pronounced and persistent," Garrett wrote, that "it permeates the entire atmosphere of this prosecution."
As a result, Garrett dismissed the case, which, according to the judge's order, had earlier been heralded by Sessions' office as being "of the greatest magnitude" it had undertaken in the past 25 years.
Sessions did not respond to requests for comment from CNN. He also did not mention the case on a questionnaire he submitted ahead of his upcoming Senate confirmation hearing, which included a section for "most significant litigated matters."