The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
The Justice Department prosecutors in the Ted Stevens public corruption case just can’t catch a break—despite winning a conviction against the longest-serving Republican senator. Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia lambasted the prosecution...
TODAY ON VOT3R - Politics STORIES (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who oversaw the criminal trial of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens (R), reprimanded federal prosecutors Friday for violating court procedures.
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | yesterday
... held as an enemy combatant at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba? That's the issue before US District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who is presiding over a high-stakes legal dispute involving allegations that US intelligence agents secretly sent a man to Morocco for 18 months of torture before transferring him to prisons in Afghanistan and then Guantánamo. Judge Sullivan has ordered the government...
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- A hearing has been scheduled regarding the inconsistent testimony of a witness in the federal trial of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, a judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said with witness David Anderson apparently wishing to recant a portion of his testimony during Stevens' trial, he will hold a special hearing to hear motions from prosecutors...
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
A hearing has been scheduled regarding the inconsistent testimony of a witness in the federal trial of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, a judge has ruled.U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said with witness David Anderson apparently wishing to recant a portion of his testimony during Stevens' trial, he will hold a special hearing to hear motions from prosecutors and defense lawyers, the...
Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
... last week, was made good on Monday with a sealed document to be read only by U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington, D.C., according to the defense.But the defense filing raised another mystery: Stevens' lawyers said the sealed filing involved an ongoing federal investigation that could involve a wiretap, but they had no more details. They demanded to be let in on the document's...
TPMmuckraker (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Last week we told you about a letter sent to the judge in the Ted Stevens trial, from a witness claiming that he lied on the stand when he said he had no immunity deal with prosecutors. Now, reports the Washington Post , the judge, Emmet Sullivan, has scheduled a hearing for Monday to consider a request from Stevens' lawyers to question the witness, David Anderson, a welder who worked...
Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
... witness, and multiple accusations of prosecutorial misconduct by the defense, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan now has a witness who appears to be recanting at least part of his testimony.Sullivan, in a one-sentence order to attorneys in the case, indicated he was seeking ideas about how to proceed with the witness, David Anderson, the estranged nephew of former Veco Corp....
