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"In nearly 25 years on the bench I have never seen anything approaching the mishandling and the misconduct that I have seen in this case." That was Judge Sullivan's rebuke as he appointed a special prosecutor to investigate whether Stevens' prosecutors had broken the law. ABC's Pierre Thomas called such an appointment "an extremely rare move" and CBS' Bob Orr called it "an extraordinary step." NBC's Pete Williams reported that the prosecution team had been accused of ten separate failures to handle evidence properly.
NBC's Williams outlined the prosecution's most egregious alleged failure. Bill Allen, the oil company executive who purportedly lined Stevens' pockets, testified at trial that he remembered discussing Stevens' request for an invoice for services rendered and dismissing it at the time as a joke. Prosecutors should have revealed that six months earlier Allen could remember no such conversation yet they kept Allen's selective memory secret from the defense team.
Attorney General Eric Holder sat down with CBS anchor Couric. The judge is suggesting that the Justice Department "dragged its feet looking into the misconduct," she charged. "I have only been Attorney General for a little over eight weeks now. I do not think that anybody can say that this department has dragged its feet."
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